Looking for Mr. Right leads to desperation, because there is no Mr. Right. There is no Mr. Right, because there is no Mr. Wrong. There is whoever is in front of us and the perfect lessons to be learned from that person.

The holy child is waiting to be born in every instant, not just once a year.

Things don't spiral out of control when we surrender them; they spiral out of control when we try to control them!

Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it's the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness.

When you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the conscious mind are not enough by themselves to handle the problem. It is like a breaker switch in your brain is simply flipped. Anybody who has had this kind of a problem knows that it doesn't matter how intelligent you are. Sigmund Freud said, "Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis."

You don't have to pray to attract great things, because great things are attracted to you already. Pray that you won't throw them away once they get here.

[God is] an all-encompassing love that is the source of all, the reality of all, and the being through which I am.