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 believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.

Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truely loves does so because of a decision to love. This person has made a commitment to be loving whether or not the loving feeling is present. ...Conversely, it is not only possible but necessary for a loving person to avoid acting on feelings of love.

Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.

When any institution becomes large and compartmentalized, with departments and subdepartments, then the conscience of the institution will often become so fragmented and diluted as to be virtually nonexistent, and the organization becomes inherently evil.