No one is any more or any less important than you are.

The highest level of prayer is not a prayer for anything. It is a deep and profound silence, in which we allow ourselves to be still and know Him. In that silence, we are changed. We are calmed. We are illumined. Prayer is meant to dissolve the worldly focus, to dissolve our sense of a separate self, to help us detach from an insane world order. We pray that He might flood our minds. Prayer is like pouring hot water on an ice cube, melting the cold and encrusted thought forms that still surround our hearts.

We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.

I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.

The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.

When you carry yesterday's thinking into today, you program tomorrow to be like yesterday.

It's the beginning of your day. You awake and look around you, feeling perhaps a joyful expectation, or perhaps an awful dread. No matter which, remember this: God loves you with an infinite love.