If you allow yourself to deepen with midlife, your experience of everything deepens, including your experience of God.

Many people who say they're looking for love are merely looking for superficial comfort. They're not looking yet for the true romantic adventure. For that entails a readiness to die to who we were, in order to be born again prepared for love, truly worthy of the romantic heights.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you.

If your eyes were open to all the beauty in the world, you would be overwhelmed with joy.

The world in which we live today-reflecting in so many way the opposite of our sweetness and love-reminds us how desperately important it is to break the spell that's been cast on the human race and retrieve our shining self.