I'm not saying that a child who was abused or beaten or abandoned made that happen, but your reaction to it is always yours.

There's a part of you that you can get a hold of, and there's a part of you that you can never get a hold of, and those are opposite things. Who are you? Which one are you? You are combinations of opposites.

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

By referring to previous struggles and using them as reasons for not getting on with your life today, you're assigning responsibility to the past for why you can't be successful or happy in the present.

In fact, everything that emanates from source emanates from a source of well-being. When we take on this ego consciousness, when we take on hate rather than love in our hearts, we create all of this divisiveness, and we create all of the problems, the struggles, the difficulties, the diseases, the poverty.

Our beliefs are the invisible ingredients in all our activities.

But whatever you've been today is already over.