An ancient memory of this love haunts all of us all the time, and beckons us to return.
According to ancient Asian philosophy, life is not a circle but a spiral. Every life lesson that has ever been presented to you (which means everything you have ever been through) will come back again...
A moment of crisis can be a moment of growth, as the wounded self prepares to transform. From the chrysalis of my pain, I will forge my healing—the wings of my newborn self.
A healthy, civilized society can absorb some anger and dysfunction, as a healthy immune system can absorb some disease. But a massive buildup of anger and mean-spiritedness bombarding our social syste...
Available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.
And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory...
[T]horoughly unprepared we take the step into the afternoon of life; worse still, we take this step with the false assumption that our truths and ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live t...
Your human self might be in hell right now, but your divine self is literally untouched by your suffering. And your divine self is who you are.
Your calling is what you would do whether you were paid to do it or not. Your calling is what you have to do in order to be happy. Your
You are loved, and your purpose is to love.
Whether we choose to focus on the guilt in their personality, or the innocence in their soul, is up to us.
When we’re willing to see the innocence in another person even when he or she has behaved without love toward us, we activate the Law of Divine Compensation.
What’s dying is the frightened mind, so the love inside us can get a chance to breathe.
What the ego doesn’t want us to see is that our pain doesn’t come from the love we weren’t given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren’t giving in the present. Salvation
We’re not at the mountaintop until any zone is comfortable. Love isn’t love until it’s unconditional.
We’re all assigned a piece of the garden, a corner of the universe that is ours to transform. Our corner of the universe is our own life—our relationships, our homes, our work, our current circumstanc...
Toxicity is often released through the tear ducts as part of the body’s natural genius at flushing itself out. Casual use of antidepressants is unwise for just this reason—feeling the full extent of y...