Your children are spiritual beings who come through you, not for you.

Healthy habits are learned in the same way as unhealthy ones - through practice.

It's probably more fulfilling for me to be offering what I offer than it is for the people who receive it.

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'.

Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend an aversion to silence, you'll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated.

Not only are we going to shift in our own lives - away from always trying to identify ourselves on the basis of what we have, what we do, and who we are better than, and so on - but shift into more reaching out, more service, more kindness, more living the virtues that Lao Tzu spoke about twenty-five hundred years ago.

Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible.