If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for example, the only way to be lifted out of deep regret and the pain over it is through atonement - through the kind of remorse that leads to genuine atonement, the making of amends, and forgiveness of self and others.

Genuine transcendence doesn't just look away from human suffering and say, "I am at peace, so I'm at the mountaintop." Genuine transcendence looks human suffering in the eye and attains peace because of a faith in things unseen.

Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.

The only thing we have to give to the world is our own grasp on it.

For what we engage, we transform. And what we engage with our hearts is transformed forever.