The soul force we need in America today, more than any other, is the spirit of atonement. We need to humble ourselves before God and ask forgiveness for the things we have done wrong. We need to ask God to forgive us for our arrogance.

Love can be a huge mountain, a gentle garden, a raging storm, a cool breeze, or a perfect bath. But there is always fire somewhere nearby. There is always the red-hot stuff of the soul's initiation. If there isn't fire, then it isn't love ... If it doesn't insist that you move to your next level, if it doesn't take your heart and make it explode in a million pieces, only to fall back together again in some Moment of enlightened understanding, then you haven't really loved.

Once you see that everything in life is a gift, you see that food is also a gift. If you are about to eat chemically processed, unhealthy food, you realize that to do so is, on a certain level, an act of violence against yourself.

Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.

The pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain.

God heard us. He sent help. He sent you.

Fear unchecked grows exponentially. Love poured forth has the power to remove it. Thus is the power of God in our lives