What we really need to avoid is this epidemic of false positivism and false happiness, which says if it hurts, it must be bad. Sometimes it hurts because you have a conscience.

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.

Let go of your story so the Universe can write a new one for you.

The Real You isn't damaged goods. The Real You is the light of the universe.

Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.

May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home.

Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.