The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

Commitment to love - to growth, to authentic power is an everyday application of your will.

The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.

You cannot act in love and act in fear at the same time. You must choose between them.

Authentic power is a new potential of this expanded perceptual system that we are all being given as a gift.

What happens behind your eyes is more important than what happens in front of them. This is a reversal from the way that we have been taught and the way that we had experienced the world as five sensory humans.

Spiritual partnership is the partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth.