Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Anything having to do with what is happening inside people has political significance to me. That is why I like the term "holistic politics."

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.

When you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the conscious mind are not enough by themselves to handle the problem. It is like a breaker switch in your brain is simply flipped. Anybody who has had this kind of a problem knows that it doesn't matter how intelligent you are. Sigmund Freud said, "Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis."

Spiritual growth increases our sense of what's possible. And as we sense new possibility, we can step into that possibility. With every word, every thought, every action, we choose what we wish to call forth in life.

I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience.