Hopefully, I will emerge more shining. If I have that good fortune, if I am blessed in that way - and I do feel I am in the middle of the blessing - then I have faith my service will be greater.

I think daily life is where the lessons come in - that's where the tests and the growth come in.

I think those of us on a spiritual journey can help create a new conversation, a new America, and a new world.

We're all assigned a piece of the garden, a corner of the universe that is ours to transform.

You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.

Let go of your story so the Universe can write a new one for you.

Once you know that every moment and every person and every situation has something to teach you, you're a student all day. You know it's the depth of your observation that is the issue - not how much the world has to show you.