As we learn to see each other through our spiritual eyes, the physical differences will cease to matter.

If you don't have a vision you're going to be stuck in what you know. And the only thing you know is what you've already seen.

Have the courage to speak your mind and tell the truth from a position of love rather than anger or fear, being open to accept the views of others without feeling threatened or defeated, relinquishing the ego's need to be in control by demonstrating the willingness to do whatever it takes to establish peace.

We live in a society where we're not taught how to deal with our weaknesses and frailties as human beings. We're not taught how to speak to our difficulties and challenges. We're taught the Pythagorean theorem and chemistry and biology and history. We're not taught anger management. We're not taught dissolution of fear and how to process shame and guilt. I've never in my life ever used the Pythagorean theorem!

You can't just cry about the pain. You can't just pray about the pain. You must eliminate the pain.

Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something.

To me, freedom means having the power, the inherent right, the capacity and the ability to make choices that honour who I am.