To be contemplative we must become converted to the consciousness that makes us one with the universe, in tune with the cosmic voice of God.

It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we are - and we start to believe it ourselves. Then, bent over from the weight of the negativity, we start to wither on the outside.

Hospitality is simply love on the loose.

Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all times.

It is not our job to work miracles, but it is our task to try.

Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it. "Success is dangerous," the painter Pablo Picasso said. "One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."

We each should have 2 pockets: in 1 the message, 'I am dust & ashes;' in the other, 'For me the universe was made.'