I can transform my entire life. The universe is an unbroken, continuous fabric within which I can create and intend my destiny.

So, you pay attention to what is in every moment. And when you do that, then you realize that the presence of God is everywhere.

If I may take the risk of defining what a spiritual experience is, it is one in which pure awareness reveals itself to you as the maker of reality - where you suddenly discover through insight or meditation or a freak accident that your essential nature is spiritual, non-material.

The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.

Every experience of love, bliss, belonging, inspiration, and insight provides a stepping stone back to your true self.

If all of the steps of surrender are present, then a great Rembrandt or Monet will evoke love because the artist is simply there in all his naked humanity.

We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.