Something very beautiful happens to people when their world’s fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.
Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.
Don’t be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.
Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world’s despair.
Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
No matter what the problem, a miracle can solve it. Remember to ask for one...
Trying to suppress or eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there’s more to healing than that; dealing with psychological, emotional and spiritual issues involved in treating sickness is equally important.
Envision possibility. Don’t worry who else believes in it; the universe is only looking for instructions from you.
We think that because we dwell inside our bodies that we are separate from other people who dwell inside theirs.
Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.
The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.
The transformation from body identification to spirit identification is the purpose of our lives.
May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home.
The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best that is in us. It is only through our own personal awakening that the world can be awakened. We cannot give what we do not have.
In asking for miracles, we are seeking a practical goal: a return to inner peace. We’re not asking for something outside us to change, but for something inside us to change. We’re looking for a softer orientation to life.
If you are not grieving, you are not conscious. But if you are not rejoicing in the possibilities of how this could all change, then you are not looking through the filter of the greatest spiritual perspicacity.
If your eyes were open to all the beauty in the world, you would be overwhelmed with joy.
Every relationship, every situation is part of a divinely created and highly specific curriculum for your soul growth.
God is the electricity and we are the lamps.
If we come to see that this world does not have the final word, then we open our mind and therefore our entire lives to experience the possibility of infinite possibilities.