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

There can be no darkness where I provide the light.

There is an old cliche, 'You can see the glass half empty, or you can see it half full.' You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right. But whatever you focus on, you're going to get more of. Creation is an extension of thought. Think lack, and you get lack. Think abundance, and you get more.

My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.

Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best that is in us. It is only through our own personal awakening that the world can be awakened. We cannot give what we do not have.

You receive the light through what you read, through what you hear in meditation, or through some spiritual practice.