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

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

I think optimism is a moral imperative.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience. But if we shift our experience of self-identification - and this is what enlightenment is - from the body-self to the spiritual-self, then we place ourselves under an entirely different set of possibilities and probabilities.

You don't want to try to protect yourself from the pain of a crisis. You want to learn everything you can from it.

As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.

It isn't courageous to go forth when you don't know the dangers. But it's very courageous to go forth when you do.