The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again.

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.

But at the end, if we are brave enough to love, if we are strong enough to forgive, if we are generous enough to rejoice in another's happiness, and if we are wise enough to know that there is enough love to go around for us all, then we can achieve a fulfillment that no other living creature will ever know, we can reenter paradise.

Seek something outside your nine-to-five job as an additional source of fulfillment and as a way to feel the joy of helping others.

None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of world we live in.

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

When I talk to people who feel this emptiness and lack of fulfillment, I recommend they find a source of balance in their lives. I suggest they find a way to "give back" to the world in order to feel a sense of completeness.