The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.

No matter what is happening now, events will ultimately bend toward love the way a flower bends toward sunlight.

The past doesn't determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the universe to begin again at any moment.

To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable.

If you want to have a nonmiraculous day, I suggest that newspaper and caffeine form the crux of your morning regimen. Listen to the morning news while you're in the shower, read the headlines as you are walking out the door, make sure you're keeping tabs on everything: the wars, the economy, the gossip, the natural disasters. . . But if you want the day ahead to be full of miracles, then spend some time each morning with God.

The more you drop into your heart, the more God can drop into your mind.

I don't believe the United States is going through a midlife crisis. The United States is going through an adolescent crisis.