We experience who we really are, and what it is we are meant to do, in any moment when we pour our love into the universe.

A certain desperation is usually necessary before we're ready for God... Until your knees finally hit the floor, you're just playing at life, and on some level you're scared because you know you're just playing. The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins

Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy.

Sometimes you are lifted up to the mountaintop as a gift from the universe, so you can see what is possible. Then you are put down back at the bottom: Now you have to earn it for yourself.

The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

A relationship is more of an assignment than a choice. We can walk away from the assignment, but we cannot walk away from the lessons it presents. We stay with a relationship until a lesson is learned, or we simply learn it another way.