Love is a hero’s journey, and the hero’s journey is a noble but difficult path.

Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.

Don't be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.

If you want to have a nonmiraculous day, I suggest that newspaper and caffeine form the crux of your morning regimen. Listen to the morning news while you're in the shower, read the headlines as you are walking out the door, make sure you're keeping tabs on everything: the wars, the economy, the gossip, the natural disasters. . . But if you want the day ahead to be full of miracles, then spend some time each morning with God.

Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.

If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.

You can know everything that the books have to say, but ultimately it boils down to whether we do the inner work of devotion and surrender, whether we can put aside our own agendas and allow the spirit to move through us.