Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.

I think the heartbreak of September 11 - America's grief not only over the loss of life but also the loss of our own innocence -has expanded us as people because it has tenderized our hearts. On a psychological level, the American people have matured as a result of that awful day.

We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.

Feminine power isn't something we go out and acquire; it's already within us. It's something we become willing to experience. Something to admit we have

The issue of spiritual power is to meet the limited mortal circumstance with unlimited thought.

If you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

You can live your life out of a circumstance or you can live your life out of a vision.