Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.

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.

When you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself in all ways that are necessary.

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

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace