The teenager begins to realize he or she really does want to be part of a community, really does want to have good relationships with others, really does want to create something truly good with his or her life. The teenager comes to understand just being smart and just being privileged are not enough.

I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.

A relationship is more of an assignment than a choice. We can walk away from the assignment, but we cannot walk away from the lessons it presents. We stay with a relationship until a lesson is learned, or we simply learn it another way.

Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history.

Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.

The real transformation of the world comes not from what we are doing but from the consciousness from which we are doing it.

The universe is intentional. It is always moving in the direction of greater love, regardless whether or not we consciously align with that love.