The Real You isn't damaged goods. The Real You is the light of the universe.

We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience. But if we shift our experience of self-identification - and this is what enlightenment is - from the body-self to the spiritual-self, then we place ourselves under an entirely different set of possibilities and probabilities.

We're often afraid to do anything unless we know we can do it extremely well. But we get to Carnegie Hall by practicing. I remember how freeing it was several years ago to read in an interview with Joan Baez that some of Bob Dylan's early songs weren't so wonderful. We have this image of genius springing fully grown out of Zeus' forehead.

I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the hand of God.

Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.

The past doesn't determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the universe to begin again at any moment.