If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

Even a happy life has a sad day. We fail to provide a context which says it's okay to cry, it's okay to be sad. So I think making the space for suffering is so important and making space for this expression of feelings in community.

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

You don't have to pray to attract great things, because great things are attracted to you already. Pray that you won't throw them away once they get here.

My father's politics were old-fashioned in the sense that he used to say, all the time, "You've got to fight the system!" But my spiritual beliefs have led me to believe that the fight is the problem.

Living in this world, under the dominance of the ego mind, is difficult. That's the struggle.

When you realize that the real breakthroughs come from levels of higher consciousness, then you also realize that the achievement of maturity and wisdom is the most powerful generator of new beginnings possible.