Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.

Spiritual Work is not easy. It means the willingness to surrender feelings that seem, while we're in them, like our defense against a greater pain. It means that we surrender to God our perceptions of all things.

When you realize that the real breakthroughs come from levels of higher consciousness, then you also realize that the achievement of maturity and wisdom is the most powerful generator of new beginnings possible.

Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.

There is an old cliche, 'You can see the glass half empty, or you can see it half full.' You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right. But whatever you focus on, you're going to get more of. Creation is an extension of thought. Think lack, and you get lack. Think abundance, and you get more.

Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world.

Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.