The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

If a person is fearful, it is a fearful time. If a person is hopeful, it's a hopeful time. If you look at world events one way, fear is reasonable. If you look at the world another way, hope is justified.

I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my work is about - have been very hard on me. There is an expression in Alcoholics Anonymous called "contempt prior to investigation." I feel many people practice contempt prior to investigation.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.

In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.

Spiritual growth increases our sense of what's possible. And as we sense new possibility, we can step into that possibility. With every word, every thought, every action, we choose what we wish to call forth in life.