We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

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.

Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go.

Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.

Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional change.

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

The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances.