The soul is that which beholds beauty even when the mind denies it.

Nothing changes the environment like one person deciding to love another, no matter what.

We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.

You, and you alone, decide what something means to you. Yet this is a decision that most people make based upon past feelings, experiences, understandings, or future fears. None of this has anything to do with what is going on right here, right now.

I do not love "good" more than I love "bad." Hitler went to heaven. When you understand this, you will understand God.

If a spaceship from the outer reaches of the galaxy landed on Earth in the next two months, and its occupants climbed out and presented Earthlings with a list of secrets - a simple formula - for making life finally work on this planet without violence, killing, and war, without turmoil, pain, and suffering, without want, lack, and despair, do you think we would be wise to look it over? Even if it contradicted everything we knew to be true or thought to be so?

Don't close off the possibility of new truth because you've been comfortable with an old one. Life be-gins at the end of your comfort zone.