May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

You receive the light through what you read, through what you hear in meditation, or through some spiritual practice.

The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.

If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.

In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

We must be proactive in our love in order for it to change our lives.

It's tempting to think that decisions that are not life-and-death are therefore unimportant, and that the little compromises we make don't matter to our bottom line or our spiritual selves. How many of us are tempted, in business, to make a less-than-ethical decision? To appropriate someone else's idea or fudge some numbers? We have to remember that maintaining our ethical and spiritual selves is absolutely linked with achieving the degree of success we're working toward.