Our deepest human need is not material at all. Our deepest need is to be seen.

To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable.

You can't remove that layer of pain by just saying, "Okay, I'm not going to wallow in it." The only way to remove that layer of pain is to face what it says and to recognize it as the look in the mirror that it is, reflecting the things you did that you wish you hadn't done and the things you didn't do that you wish you had done.

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.

If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.

All things show up in the world according to the purposes we ascribe to them.