Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.

We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us. A loving universe makes sure that we go through those things too.

Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love in service to mankind.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

By softening our attitudes, practicing mercy and compassion, we transform our lives by transforming other people's experience of us. Send love before you when you enter a room, and people will subconsciously feel it; they'll be prone to show greater kindness in return. That's how love makes things work better in our lives; it realigns the reactions of people and things around us.

We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.

But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.