The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

I have heard it said that living out of our vision is more powerful than living out of our circumstance.

By softening our attitudes, practicing mercy and compassion, we transform our lives by transforming other people's experience of us. Send love before you when you enter a room, and people will subconsciously feel it; they'll be prone to show greater kindness in return. That's how love makes things work better in our lives; it realigns the reactions of people and things around us.

On any given day, in any given moment, something could happen that opens up for you an entirely new path. Be still, be alert, be ready.

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.

The universe is wired with the electricity of God, & each of us is a lamp. It doesn't matter the size or shape of the lamp; it only matters that the lamp is plugged in. With every prayer, every thought of forgiveness, every meditation, every act of love, we plug in. The more of us who plug in, to more the darkness of the world will be cast from our midst. Today, let's all increase love's wattage!

There is an increasingly pervasive sense that one age is over and a new one is beginning - in business, in politics, in science, in psychology.