If we come to see that this world does not have the final word, then we open our mind and therefore our entire lives to experience the possibility of infinite possibilities.

The bottom line in love is not whether someone loves you, but whether someone chooses you.

If you're busy regretting the past, then a new future can't come in.

I have seen so much obstructed potential among people who lack personal discipline, who just slough it off, whatever it is, and who think that nothing matters very much. I want my daughter to have what I think of as a capacity for self-discipline. Not the sort of self-discipline that diminishes her own wild passions, but that makes it safer for her to own those wild passions.

You receive the light through what you read, through what you hear in meditation, or through some spiritual practice.

No matter what's happening in your life, you can change the trajectory of events by closing your eyes, reviewing your thought and behavior, and sending love wherever you've been withholding it.

The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.