The love is what's left at the end because it's the bedrock, fundamental reality that gets hidden all the time, but never really goes away.

I believe we are shown the path that is right as soon as we ask for it. Then we must live in the world and in some way express what we have learned.

Real intimacy; real love has to do with a joining of the mind, a joining of the spirit, a joining of the heart.

When a woman falls in love with the magnificent possibilities within herself, the forces that would limit those possibilities hold less and less sway over her.

The revolution of ideas that will save us is a revolution of goodwill, of compassion, and of higher thinking. I believe that they outnumber the people who would choose fear. But they are not a particularly politicized force. If you look at the numbers of people buying books about revolutions from within and personal transformation as the key to global change, the numbers add up to a much greater audience than most people realize.

Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.

As you get older, you have more and more layers of experience to forgive, more layers of heartbreak, more layers of what you might think of as failure.