Sometimes out hearts are broken so new light can get in.

So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of uninterrupted years, they are absolutely correct, but in only one respect-only if they happen to be talking about Judaism.

I wondered, "Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?

I share it here because something was about to occur on that bathroom floor that would change forever the progression of my life..what happened was that I started to pray.

I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices, and you can begin to grasp why the modern world has become, even with all its advantages, a neurosis-generating machine of the highest order.

We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.