There is a trend in child-rearing that I find abhorrent: "Whatever the kids want to do is fine." For me, the classic example of this is when someone has a visitor and says, "Go kiss Aunt Gertrude," and Aunt Gertrude says, "She doesn't have to kiss me if she doesn't want to." Well, I think that's wrong.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing. When the being is intense enough, when the words are spoken enough, when the thoughts are thought enough, the doing will automatically follow.

Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.

[God is] an all-encompassing love that is the source of all, the reality of all, and the being through which I am.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.