There is no free will if to exercise it in certain ways produces punishment. That makes a mockery of free will and renders it counterfeit.

Your whole life is a message. Every act is an act of self-definition . Everything you think, say and do sends a message about you.

We are caught in a trap, a cycle, in which we keep trying to solve the world's problems at every level - except the level at which the problems exist.

It doesn't matter what the other is being, doing, having, saying, wanting, demanding. It doesn't matter what the other is thinking, expecting, planning. It only matters what you are being in relationship to that.

I think Easterners have to be dragged kicking and screaming to their mind about God, and I think Westerners have to be dragged kicking and screaming to their heart center about God.

You can choose to live your lives as demonstrations of your highest and grandest beliefs, rather than as denials of them.

I will not be alone if I am my true self. Only by trading my true self for the companionship of another have I ever made myself alone. Because when I gave up my real self, I wound up resenting my "significant other" for "making me" do that-and it was this resentment that ate away at our relationship.