The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.

The teenager begins to realize he or she really does want to be part of a community, really does want to have good relationships with others, really does want to create something truly good with his or her life. The teenager comes to understand just being smart and just being privileged are not enough.

Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.

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.

The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.

I see the universe as naturally and infinitely self-correcting.

We don't ask God for too much; in fact, we ask for too little. Turn to Him for everything. Give everything to God.