A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.

Real love is comforting, to be sure, but not always at first.

God isn't separate from us, because He's the love inside our minds. Every problem, inside and out, is due to a separation from love on someone's part. Thirty-five thousand people a day die of hunger on earth, and there's no dearth of food. The question is not 'what kind of God would let children starve?' but rather, 'What kind of people let children starve?'

Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

I am trying to be in that alchemical soup of human transformation. I am trying to process, reconcile, forgive, let go, and grieve, when necessary.