The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.

Our deepest need is to be seen.

the spiritual meaning of every situation [is] not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us and who we decide to become because of what happens to us. The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.

You must master a new way to think, before you can master a new way to be.

Love is to fear as light is to dark; in the presence of one, the other cannot exist. So wherever there is a place of fear in your life, think of one thing - even if it's just a thought you can think-where you can generate love to cast out the fear.

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.

My biggest past mistakes have been when I made decisions out of ego rather than spirit. When I acted too quickly. When I wasn't contemplative or reflective or prayerful enough, and I ended up making what I would only later see to be unwise decisions.