Until we get to the point where we've had enough of things that hurt and long more than anything for a peaceful love, we are bound to take painful roads. We are destined to play out our frivolous disasters until we declare ourselves finished and done with them. How much pain do we have to suffer before we are sure we want no more? As much, it seems, as we have to until we don't.

No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.

Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

Don't be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

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.