We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that’s possible and pain that’s all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.
Accepting people as they are has the miraculous effect of helping them improve. Acceptance doesn’t prohibit growth; rather, it fosters it.
Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don’t want.
Instead of praying: ‘Dear God, bring me someone fabulous,’ try: ‘Dear God, make me into someone fabulous.’
We resist Joy on this planet more than we resist war.
When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside, and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.
The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.
The spiritual journey, the path of recovery and personal growth, is a detoxification process in which we bring up and out the negative beliefs we have carried with us from the past and that now poison the present.
Sex is not the ultimate high, but the ultimate high hangs out around sex. The ultimate high is the dance with another person, played so deep down and with such abandon that glee returns to grown-ups.
Don’t go to work to make money; go to work to spread joy.
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?
Making our goal anything other than peace is emotionally self-destructive.
What the ego doesn’t want us to see is that our pain doesn’t come from the love we weren’t given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren’t giving in the present.
Only love can bring us peace. And the experience of love is a choice we make, a mental decision to see love as the only real purpose and value in any situation.
The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress.
The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.
I don’t feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.
There are people today who look to fear to take us out of fear. But I believe that there are many, many more people who would look to love.
In all the huge and amazing and infinitely varied world – there is only one you.
Once we truly understand that God’s will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God’s will be done.