Those who love, truly love, can be coerced into nothing.
Once you understand love, you don’t need a reward your kindness or compassion just like you don’t need a reward for breathing.
The greatest potential we have for opening our hearts lies in the opening of our minds.
Discovering the truth of who you are is the only way to love and care for yourself.
All love begins with the love within.
The transformed person is a revolutionary only because he has revolutionized himself. He gives the people inspiration by holding up a mirror to their inner substance.
Fear is just a misunderstanding of your immortality.
This is, perhaps, the greatest challenge of our time – to love in the absence of any immediate rewards for our love.
Remember who you really are. You cannot be destroyed or hurt. You cannot be harmed or killed. You, the real you, will always be present and powerful.
We all have an inner intuition for authenticity, for matched up internal and external truth. When we detect this, we feel immediate comfort. We know truth when we hear it.
An act of love is not an act for you and not for me. It is an act for you as well as for me. Love is for us.
The search for the soul mate, the perfect partner to complete you, is a bit like searching for the perfect food when you’ve got a giant ulcer in your stomach. No matter what you find, it will never be good enough.
Day after day, more and more medications are prescribed for depression and addiction, assuming that these things run in our blood, when really they run in our patterns of awareness.
Your relationship to yourself is and always will be directly reflected in all your relationships with others.
In our thoughts, we hold the key to our feelings. In our minds, we hold the key to love.
Within, you hold a tiny piece of eternity, a fraction of life, a mirror of the universe.
If you ate nails, your stomach would hurt, and it’s a good thing that it would. Eating nails is deadly, thus the pain is helpful. Like this, sadness, anger, and anxiety are not to be feared or shamed, but listened to and decoded.
As I think of myself, so I shall be.
In truth, people know very little about each other. I only know as much about you as I know about myself.
The less people know, the more they talk. The less people understand, the more they try to explain.