Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.

Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it's the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness.

The people who have achieved more than you, in any area, are only a half step ahead of you in time. Bless them and praise their gifts, and bless and praise your own. The world would be less rich without their contributions, and it would be less rich without yours. There's more than room for everyone; in fact, there's a need for everyone.

The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.

I can’t say that there are “things” that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. Those are thoughts that take me beyond myself; that remind me that there’s a bigger game going on on this planet than simply my own existence; that love works miracles, and how much we need them now.

If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.

To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.