With empathy you know in your heart that it's not a sign of weakness to attempt to understand that the people we call terrorists have placed the same label on us, and that the use of force will create a counter force, a never-ending saga of killing and hate. Ending war involves cultivating empathy in our policies and the love of God in our hearts. As the Native Americans reminded us: No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves.

... Remember in the beginning God created heaven and earth and all that was created was good so that anything that isn't good has come about because of your belief of mind that you are separate from this divinity. You are not what you have. You are not what you do. You are not what others think of you. You are beloved. You are divine. You are a creation that is made into perfection.

A transcendent being can be any miracle.

Enlightenment demands that you take responsibility for your way of life.

Love creates new form, changes matter, and holds the cosmos together beyond time and space. It's in every one of us. It's what God is.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.