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 don't think of myself as a very famous person, but the modicum of celebrity that I've had has not been a positive experience for me at all.

The entire world would feel the vibration if America returned to its heart.

To me, everything happening inside of us is political.

God picks you up. You don't pick yourself up. You're the one who knocked you down or even if somebody else knocked you down, your willingness to believe that what they said had value, was your conspiring with them, with their effort to knock you down - I've never been able to get myself up and I've noticed that every time I ask God to pick me up - he does.

Always seek less turbulent skies. Hurt. Fly above it. Betrayal. Fly above it. Anger. Fly above it. You are the one who is flying the plane.

Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.