You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.

The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.

When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with it, time enjoying it and time taking care of it.

A discussion becomes destructive when it begins to generate more heat than light.

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.

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.