You have to recognize that God isn't something outside of you - a cosmic bellboy to whom you pray in order to get this or that if you do the right things. Those kinds of understandings are all ego talk. Everybody - you, me, Osama bin Laden, Adolf Hitler - we all came from the same Source. Then we took on these egos and began to practice all kinds of things based in not having reverence for life, whereas that which is God has reverence for all life. All excuses are nothing more than misalignments with God.

In God's eyes, no one on this planet is any better than you.

Our most important problems cannot be solved; they must be outgrown.

Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, this is my nature, I can't help it - that are just memes. They're belief systems that keep you from being able to become all that you are intended to become. They're impediments to reaching God-realization, or Tao-centeredness. People lose track of their purpose, because they are so back there - living in their past. Byron Katie speaks about this: Who would you be without your story? Carlos Castaneda used to say if you don't have a story, you don't have to live up to it. So get rid of your story.

Send out anger and impatience, and that's what you'll get. Send out love, and you'll get back love.

As you awaken to your divine nature, you'll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience.

It's much easier to be at peace than it is to hate somebody. It's much easier to love somebody than to fight with them.