From the age of three on, as far back as I remember, I just knew there was a God behind everything.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

I can remember years ago sitting on my bed and suddenly thinking, "I am God."

Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.

The time and the quality of the time that their parents devote to them indicate to children the degree to which they are valued by their parents. . . . When children know that they are valued, when they truly feel valued in the deepest parts of themselves, then they feel valuable. This knowledge is worth more than any gold.

Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to be love. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.