We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
Cynicism is just an excuse for not helping.
Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.
A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.
Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.
Like a great athlete, we must have a very clear vision of what we want to accomplish before we make a move. Vision, in preparation for an action, is as important as the action itself.
Every day can be like Christmas in its love and its peace if our hearts open up and make room for love. The holy child is waiting to be born in every instant, not just once a year.
The change we are looking for is always a change within ourselves. And the change will come. I’ve noticed that as long as I’m willing to be different, something or someone arrives to show me how.
Spiritual Work is not easy. It means the willingness to surrender feelings that seem, while we’re in them, like our defense against a greater pain. It means that we surrender to God our perceptions of all things.
If you think there’s something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.
When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and destruction, then and only then will we have a chance.
Sadness is just a place on the map. Don’t try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go.
In the Jewish religion it says – in the time of deepest darkest night act as if the morning has already come.
Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of grief, like old skin cells to drop off us.
In each of us, there lies a divine connection to a power more powerful than hate or violence. Today is the day to attune to that power and use it on behalf of peace on earth.
Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.
Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture.
You’ve committed no sins, just mistakes.
You are emerging from the cocoon of your former self. There are no limits to the extent of the transformation that’s possible for you.
You need not apologize for being brilliant, talented, gorgeous, rich, or smart.