Singing connects the mind with the heart and the heart with the soul. So sing. I dare you!
And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don’t. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that.
Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.
Honor the tradition but expand the understanding. That’s what religions must do right now if they hope to be helpful to humans in the years ahead.
The question ‘Who am I?’ is not an idle one. How you answer the question will determine how you live the rest of your life. It will determine the quality of your life.
When you come from ‘love,’ you do certain things because you are love, not because you want to have love.
Many many people find themselves wondering in their 40s and 50s, is this all there is?
There can be only two questions that are asked with regard to human relationships: Where am I going? Who is going with me? Do not invert the order of the questions. Do not – under any circumstances – invert the order of the questions. Is that clear?
When you find that your life is out of alignment with your grandest idea of yourself, seek to change it.
What you give, you become.
It’s a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we’ve come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a ‘quickening of the spirit.’
There is no free will if to exercise it in certain ways produces punishment. That makes a mockery of free will and renders it counterfeit.
Only humans are judgmental, and because you are, you assume that I must be. Yet I am not, and that is the great truth you cannot accept.
A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is What would love do now?
In the true order of things one does not do something in order to be happy-one is happy and, hence, does something. One does not do some things in order to be compassionate, one is compassionate and, hence, acts in a certain way.
Built into you is an internal guidance system that shows you the way home. All you need to do is heed the voice.
At the critical juncture in all human relationships, there is only one question: What would love do now?
There is enough to go around. Lack of the will to share is the problem, not lack of the stuff to share.
The reason people don’t know what is good for them is because most people don’t know what they are trying to do.
Stopping smoking was most dramatic for me. After 23 years, I picked up a cigarette one day and didn’t know why I was doing it. Smoking was no longer in alignment with what I had intended to experience of myself.
All mysteries of human experience that are eliminated when we understand that we are a great deal more than our body and when you look very deeply at who and what the soul really is, who and what God really is.