Meditation gives you an opportunity to come to know your invisible self. It allows you to empty yourself of the endless hyperactivity of your mind, and to attain calmness. It teaches you to be peaceful, to remove stress, to receive answers where confusion previously reigned.

Everything in the universe has a purpose.

God is love and doesn't ask for anything back in return. So it's that process of letting go and just allowing, and just being in that pure state.

We expand what we focus on.

Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.

Simply be the qualities you seek in others.

It's one thing to make a pronouncement in a moment of inspiration about what you intend to manifest in your life or what kind of person you intend to become. It's quite another thing to make a commitment to holding that vision regardless of what difficulties or obstacles may surface. Holding the vision involves an unwillingness to compromise what you're visualizing for yourself. It means being willing to suffer through criticism and what appears to be an uncooperative universe.