I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my work is about - have been very hard on me. There is an expression in Alcoholics Anonymous called "contempt prior to investigation." I feel many people practice contempt prior to investigation.

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

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

If our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability. If our emotional stability is based on love that is changeless and unalterable, then we attain the stability of God.

If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.

Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.

We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.