It is absolutely a relationship with food that is a displaced relationship with God. And that displaced relationship with God takes two forms: our availability to other people and our availability to our own thoughts and feelings.
Consider the possibility of infinite possibility.
No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.
Only God’s Thoughts – or love – is actually real. So when we separate ourselves from that love, we’re actually not thinking at all: we’re hallucinating.
To the extent we are perceiving anyone’s guilt -choosing to focus on the errors of their personality rather than the eternal innocence of their spirit – we’re closing our hearts, deflecting a miracle and causing our own inevitable suffering.
Every relationship is a gift exchange.
We will make love an art and we will love like artists.
The world won’t step into its greatness until we step into ours.
A primary goal of the spiritual life is to learn to quiet the mind through prayer and meditation, through spiritual practice, so that we can hear what in both Judaism and Christianity, is called the small, still voice within.
The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.
What you do comes from what you think.
Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.
When love isn’t in our lives, it’s on the way. If you know that a special guest is coming at five o’clock, do you spend the day messing up the home? Of course not. You prepare. And that is what we should do for love.
Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.
The Real You isn’t damaged goods. The Real You is the light of the universe.
Sometimes, when I’m sitting with people who have been stripped of everything and who are naked and authentic and finding themselves for the first time, I am reminded of how good people really are.
There is no greater gift to future generations than that we do the work God has asked us to do: love one another, that the world might be made right.
No matter what’s happening in your life, you can change the trajectory of events by closing your eyes, reviewing your thought and behavior, and sending love wherever you’ve been withholding it.
The key to a successful career is realizing that it’s not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your most basic self. And your most basic self is love.
The soul is the truth of who we are.