Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.

Our hearts are being stretched to span the violence and the suffering in our lives and world, and at the same time we are also witness to so much magnificence and brilliance. We are a species that has produced nuclear weapons, and also one that has developed profound insight into the nature of life itself.

There's only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves. What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves. In any moment, when we choose fear instead of love, we deny ourselves the experience of Paradise.

Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.

The universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting.

When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.

Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional change.