Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within.

We are already ONE. We just think we are separate.

But the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that he may be the object of God's love precisely because of his shortcomings, can begin to be sincere. His sincerity is based on confidence, not in his own illusions about himself, but in the endless, unfailing mercy of God.

The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.

Love is a special way of being alive.