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I'm better than I used to be. Better than I was yesterday. But hopefully not as good as I'll be tomorrow.
Anyone who isn't confused or conflicted on the topic of Israel probably isn't looking into it too deeply.
Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.
We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.
The same group of New York pseudo-intellectuals who've put down prayer are the same ones who put down L.A.
In all the great religious systems, there are divine beings who represent the feminine face of the divine.
Real liberation for men means that they can explore and integrate their feminine aspects of consciousness.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
Instead of praying: 'Dear God, bring me someone fabulous,' try: 'Dear God, make me into someone fabulous.'
People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.
You're not to wallow, but if you don't process your regrets, then they remain emotional underground toxins.
One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.
As we mature through the years, we access more deeply information we had only abstractly understood before.
To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.
Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history.
I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.
My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page.
America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.
The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable.
You have to make a space in your heart, in your mind and in your life itself for authentic human connection.
The last thing we should do is allow ourselves to be infantilized by a counterfeit version of enlightenment.
I place my life in the hands of God each day. And I trust that He knows what He's doing, even when I do not.
Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb...just something to feel.
We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?
We don't need to fight the forces of chaos so much as we need to restore and revitalize the forces of peace.
In the Jewish religion it says - in the time of deepest darkest night act as if the morning has already come
Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.
The meaningful question is never what we did yesterday, but what we have learned from it and are doing today.
The pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain.
I'm not bowled over by how different all the world's religions are - I'm bowled over by how similar they are.
In the Kabbala, it says that we receive the light in order to impart the light, and thus we repair the world.
Increasing meaning and joy on the planet is the ultimate goal because within that space all evil is cast out.
With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.
Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life.
The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.
The fate of the world rests on this one thing: our capacity to actualize our spiritual potential, and quickly.
We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.
Political propaganda seeks to affect the way people perceive the world in order to affect the way they behave.
Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.
I think those of us on a spiritual journey can help create a new conversation, a new America, and a new world.
People tend to have a government that reflects the level of consciousness of the majority of people who voted.
Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
Love is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul.
Real intimacy; real love has to do with a joining of the mind, a joining of the spirit, a joining of the heart.
Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state.
Life is not a piece of tragic fiction in which, at the end of the reading, we all get up and go out for drinks.
To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable.
Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.