The world loves us when we choose to love the world.
Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.
No company or organization filled with unhappy people will ultimately rise to its highest potential.
No matter what is happening now, events will ultimately bend toward love the way a flower bends toward sunlight.
Your life shows up for you when you show up for your life.
The universe is intentional. It is always moving in the direction of greater love, regardless whether or not we consciously align with that love.
Sometimes when everything has totally apart, the meaningless preoccupations that so often dominate our lives simply fall away. And what is left is who we really are, and who we really are is compassionate and intelligent and wise.
Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.
Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.
Think of everything you’ve ever experienced that was painful; that’s the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that’s the meaning of Easter.
People don’t usually come see me because things are going well.
The field of quantum possibility, in which love has opened doors otherwise unimaginable, is our soul’s true habitat. The world of fear and limitation is not our home, and who among us is not profoundly weary of hanging out where we do not belong.
If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there’s a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.
Your life has purpose as long as you dedicate it to love. It’s not what we do but who we are that forms our biggest contribution.
Go for greatness. Anything else is a waste of time.
I can’t say that there are “things” that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.
There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.
Even a happy life has a sad day. We fail to provide a context which says it’s okay to cry, it’s okay to be sad. So I think making the space for suffering is so important and making space for this expression of feelings in community.
I don’t think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.
Real intimacy; real love has to do with a joining of the mind, a joining of the spirit, a joining of the heart.