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

As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance—an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love—then external lack is bound to be temporary.

Once you get to your forties or fifties in this society, very few people haven't had at least one body blow - financial, bankruptcy, divorce, relationship disaster, addiction, trouble with a child, trouble with a parent. Most people take some blow.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

Do not fear. Look beyond what's dying to what's being born.

My father's politics were old-fashioned in the sense that he used to say, all the time, "You've got to fight the system!" But my spiritual beliefs have led me to believe that the fight is the problem.