We are so trained in the thought system of fear and attack that we get to the point where natural thinking - love - feels unnatural and unnatural thinking - fear - feels natural. It takes real discipline and training to unlearn the thought system of fear.

Anybody can be heard. Anyone can express their truths. And communication is possible without the confines of the body.

We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.

I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my work is about - have been very hard on me. There is an expression in Alcoholics Anonymous called "contempt prior to investigation." I feel many people practice contempt prior to investigation.

Our deepest human need is not material at all. Our deepest need is to be seen.

Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.

Every time we open our hearts, we create the space for a global alternative.