I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feelings, since hiding in any degree keep me stuck in my illusion of separateness from other people.
Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
We’ve got to convince our egos and our minds that if we want to live happy lives, love is more important than anything else!
Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized.
You should always be aware that your head creates your world.
I take full responsibility here and now for everything I experience, for it is my own programming that creates my actions and also influences the reactions of people around me.
I act freely when I am tuned in, centred and loving, but if possible, I avoid acting when I am emotionally upset and depriving myself of the wisdom that flows from love and expanded consciousness.
Keep in mind that you don’t need to be addicted to money in order to acquire it. You can prefer to have money; you will then be able to enjoy whatever money you receive, but your happiness will not be contingent on the size of your bank account.
School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child’s spirit.
Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.
This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.
O America, how you’ve taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
The existence of poverty in the US should not be accepted as a necessary evil or insoluble problem, but should be considered a crisis requiring emergency measures. It is a matter of will and priorities, not a matter of resources.
We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.
All too many of those who live in affluent America ignore those who exist in poor America; in doing so, the affluent Americans will eventually have to face themselves with the question that Eichman chose to ignore: How responsible am I for the well-being of my fellows?
We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs to be repaved. We are called to be the Good Samaritan, but after you lift so many people out of the ditch you start to ask, maybe the whole road to Jericho needs to be repaved.
We must face the appalling fact that we have been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties.
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.