Money always has been something that has attracted itself to me.

What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.

Even if you are loaded down with guilt about everything you did in the past, you still are experiencing the guilt in the moment.

The moment is all there is now. All there is is now. That's what God is, too. God is only now.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

Self worth cannot be verified by others. You are worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on others for your value it is other-worth.

Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is". I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the way they are.