To successfully open the door to heightened awareness, we must open it inward.

Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Quietly affirm that you will define your own reality from now on and that your definition will be based on your inner wisdom

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.

The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.

Woodrow Wilson was the president of the United States in 1920, and he was made a fool of - his wife almost divorced him - because he wouldn't support women's suffrage. He was president during World War I, but I look back upon him as a coward. Because he knew the right thing to do - the right of women to vote was an idea whose time had come a long time before then, when a lot of women were put into prison or persecuted because they fought for it.

Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought.