Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.

Being fully in the present, you experience the timeless. In the timeless, you find your true self.

Now take all these qualities together: order, balance, evolution and intelligence. What you have is a description of love. It's not the popular ideal, it is the wizard's love - the force that upholds life and nurtures it.

What you call flaws are really just scars and wounds accumulated over a lifetime.

Religion has failed us. Christ was not a Christian. Buddha was not a Buddhist. Mohammed was not a Mohammedan. And yet ever since the dawn of history, we have engaged in conflict and war and terrorism and murder and racism and ethnocentrism and bigotry and prejudice in the name of God.

There are three components to that purpose, one is to find out who you really are, to discover God, the second is to serve other human beings.

For some, healing is too much to bear, and they hand it back, exchanging it for the fear they are accustomed to.