Experience is necessary for us to grow.

The love in me salutes the love in you.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

I believe we are shown the path that is right as soon as we ask for it. Then we must live in the world and in some way express what we have learned.

In asking for miracles, we are seeking a practical goal: a return to inner peace. We’re not asking for something outside us to change, but for something inside us to change. We’re looking for a softer orientation to life.

What we really need to avoid is this epidemic of false positivism and false happiness, which says if it hurts, it must be bad. Sometimes it hurts because you have a conscience.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people