We love purely when we release other people to be who they are.

There are other kinds of emotional pain that emerge from our own mistaken thinking. As we surrender that pain, we are inviting into our thought system a guide who will lead us to different thoughts. It’s like the song “Amazing Grace”: I was blind and now I see.

We cannot give what we do not have: We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are.

Things don't spiral out of control when we surrender them; they spiral out of control when we try to control them!

My biggest past mistakes have been when I made decisions out of ego rather than spirit. When I acted too quickly. When I wasn't contemplative or reflective or prayerful enough, and I ended up making what I would only later see to be unwise decisions.

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

We don't ask God for too much; in fact, we ask for too little. Turn to Him for everything. Give everything to God.