If a person is fearful, it is a fearful time. If a person is hopeful, it's a hopeful time. If you look at world events one way, fear is reasonable. If you look at the world another way, hope is justified.

Even a happy life has a sad day. We fail to provide a context which says it's okay to cry, it's okay to be sad. So I think making the space for suffering is so important and making space for this expression of feelings in community.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

The bottom line in love is not whether someone loves you, but whether someone chooses you.

My biggest past mistakes have been when I made decisions out of ego rather than spirit. When I acted too quickly. When I wasn't contemplative or reflective or prayerful enough, and I ended up making what I would only later see to be unwise decisions.

The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.

Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.