The purpose of dancing isn't to end up at a particular spot on the floor. The purpose of dancing - and of life - is to enjoy every moment and every step, regardless of where you are when the music ends.

In the East, they contemplate the forest; in the West, they count the trees.

Within each and every one of us is a divine power that needs no substance or anything external to know bliss.

Every morning, in your first view of the day, you have the choice to say, 'Good morning, God' or 'Good God, morning.'

We come from an abundant, endlessly providing, always forthcoming, always giving source. If we would just stay like that, if we would be forthcoming and giving and sharing and allowing, excluding no one, then it wouldn't be possible to have wars in the Middle East, or poverty in Africa, or any of these kinds of things.

If you're blaming something or someone else for the way you are, then that person, those people, those circumstances or those energies, are going to have to change in order for you to get better; that's most likely never going to happen. It's also a way to manipulate other people.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.