There will be no peace in the world until there is peace in our hearts.

I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.

Physically, we get older and then we die. Yet spiritually, whether we go backward or forward is a matter not of the body but of consciousness. When we think about age differently, then our experience of it changes. We can be physically older but emotionally and psychologically younger. Some of us were in a state of decay in our 20s and are in a state of re-birth in our 60s or 70s. King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.

Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.

I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.

The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.

Cynicism is just an excuse for not helping.