We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

There's no such thing as being alone in the universe, and so there's no such thing as creating alone. Everything - every impulse, every creative gift of beauty, everything is a co-creation.

Hatred of evil does not diminish evil, it increases it.

Choosing not to act on an angry impulse and to feel the pain that lies beneath it is a very courageous thing to do.

I see the potential for a new world being born in front of me and all around me, and I feel the only way to bring that potential into being is to know myself.

Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect.

If we perceived life with reverence, we would stand in awe at the experience of physical life and walk the earth in a very deep sense of gratitude.