Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow...those who consciously or unconsciously challenge our fearful positions. They show us our walls. Our walls are our wounds--the places where we feel we can't love any more, can't connect any more deeply, can't forgive past a certain point. We are in each other's lives in order to help us see where we most need healing, and in order to help us heal.

Individuals seem to have reached their walls and so has the entire human race. Whatever isn't working, isn't life-producing, isn't producing love for ourselves or others, is going to have to go now. Or, literally, there will be hell to pay.

I embrace each moment as an opportunity for a miracle.

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside, and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.

I don't think of myself as a very famous person, but the modicum of celebrity that I've had has not been a positive experience for me at all.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.