The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.

If you ever lit a cigarette in your life, you have very little will to live.

The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'

Every great religion on the planet, regardless of what spiritual or cultural tradition from which it is that it emerges, announces and declares that spiritual mastery is an open possibility for every member of the human race. If that is not true, then the highest promise of God is a lie.

What is needed is not a change of circumstance, but a change of consciousness.

The largest question facing the human race is not when will you learn, but when will you act on what you've already learned.

It is you who are choosing, in any moment, to be happy or choosing to be sad, or choosing to be angry, or forgiving, or enlightened, or whatever. You are choosing.