As you get older, you have more and more layers of experience to forgive, more layers of heartbreak, more layers of what you might think of as failure.

A Course in Miracles tells us that although 'we think that without the ego, all would be chaos, the opposite is true. Without the ego, all would be love.'

Yes, women are homemakers - and the entire earth is our home. Yes, we are here to take care of the children - and every child in the world is one of our own.

The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.

So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.

No matter what is happening in our lives, we choose how we wish to think about it. And the greatest gift we give ourselves is often our willingness to change our minds. Despite what might seem to be the saddest and most intractable situation, we have the power to believe that something else is possible, that things can change, that a miracle can happen.

Increasing meaning and joy on the planet is the ultimate goal because within that space all evil is cast out.