Only God’s thoughts, or love, is actually real. So when we separate ourselves from that love, we’re actually not thinking at all: we’re hallucinating.

You receive the light through what you read, through what you hear in meditation, or through some spiritual practice.

There are other kinds of emotional pain that emerge from our own mistaken thinking. As we surrender that pain, we are inviting into our thought system a guide who will lead us to different thoughts. It’s like the song “Amazing Grace”: I was blind and now I see.

Dear God, I give this time of quiet to You. Please dissolve my thoughts of stress and fear And deliver me to the inner place Where all is peace and love. Amen.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people

I'm not bowled over by how different all the world's religions are - I'm bowled over by how similar they are.

Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.