The repercussions of one person living in stubborn gladness are incalculable.

You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led.

Any moment you spend attacking yourself is a moment away from your higher purpose and your power to love. Don't go there.

When you are in a creative or appreciative zone, you literally have no access to your inner lizard, to that fear-based, non creative, shrieking little beasty who's so afraid you're going to be a bag lady.

I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there

The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.

Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.