God creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally cleared away, His light will shine through it in a beautiful, colorful, totally new pattern.

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.

To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but in doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility that is not truly ours. To be organized and efficient, to live wisely, we must daily delay gratification and keep an eye on the future; yet to live joyously we must also possess the capacity, when it is not destructive, to live in the present and act spontaneously. In other words, discipline itself must be disciplined. The type of discipline required to discipline discipline is what I call balancing.

Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.