Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings.

Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.

Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.

Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.

The teenager begins to realize he or she really does want to be part of a community, really does want to have good relationships with others, really does want to create something truly good with his or her life. The teenager comes to understand just being smart and just being privileged are not enough.

The voices of fear are so loud today. The voices of love should never shout, but neither should they whisper - not at a time like this.