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.
Would a man ever be called vain for speaking his mind?
By my mid-20s, I was a total mess.
I love prayer candles, and I use them often.
Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don’t see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.
Spiritual growth and spirituality always seem suspect to some people.
When America does what’s right, it’s such a light on this planet.
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
While women were powerfully liberated both externally as well as internally by the feminism of the 1970s, we made some serious mistakes as well.
The basic premise of ‘A Course in Miracles’ is that it teaches us to relinquish thoughts based on fear and to accept instead thoughts based on love.
We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that’s possible and pain that’s all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.
Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. ‘Know thyself’ is not a narcissistic pursuit.
We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.
Politics is in a crisis because it’s separated from our deep humanity.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
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 of God that is within us.
Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama – those who came before and those who will come after.
Divine organization is inherent in all things.
The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to.
I have no doubt that the lies Trump told on the campaign trail will come crashing back at him in karmic retribution.
The Western world is having an identity crisis.
Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can’t ‘rationally’ transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse.
Today’s average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom.
Whatever it is that leads human beings to hate, to destroy, and to kill has taken on a collective force like never before, as technology and globalization now give it the capacity to not just strike, but to strike us all, together, as one.
In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded of their failures and limited by the energies of another person. It is rife with judgment and blame.
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.
Joy, has no cost.
The man I love may decide tomorrow that he loves me no more – but if my heart remains open, I will endure the storm.
The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it’s increasingly difficult to reconcile the rhythms of our personal lives with the rapidity of a twenty-four-hour news cycle.
The struggle between Israelis and Palestinians is a perfect reflection of the struggle between fear and forgiveness that rages within us all.
In most of our situations in life, if we take a good honest look at our lives, we are holding to small, limiting thoughts, cynical thoughts.
Tax breaks and other financial breaks that favor the wealthiest among us do not create greater prosperity for all; they simply siphon off more and more money to those who already have it, and more and more money away from those who do not.
Each of us has an inner room where we can visit to be cleansed of fear-based thoughts and feelings. This room, the holy of holies, is a sanctuary of light.
Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.
Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life.
Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.
Spiritual principles do not change, but we do.
Martin Luther King said it was time to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of human civilization. I don’t think anyone is calling Martin Luther King a New Age woo-woo.
A lot of my traditional audience does not appreciate my foray into politics.
Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.
Prayer is the medium of miracles; in whatever way works for you, pray right now.
As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I’ve come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way.
I don’t know anybody who doesn’t have a lost decade.
The primary social contract between the people of the United States and their government – quaint though it might seem to even mention it at this point – is that ours is to be a government ‘of the people, by the people, for the people.’
I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
Spiritual ‘exercise’ keeps your mind in shape the way physical exercise keeps your body in shape.
I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul’s growth.
The world is a holographic universe, with every piece containing the whole.
The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.
The daughters of God don’t brake for jerks.
If anything is naive and lightweight, it’s the traditional political conversation.
As we become purer channels for God’s light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.
The Latin root of the word ‘politics’ means ‘of the people.’ Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I’m already involved.
In all the great religious systems, there are divine beings who represent the feminine face of the divine.
Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.
God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
In our society, as people pass out of young adulthood, they tend to relate to themselves more in terms of what they are no longer than what they are now, and that’s psychologically low-grade devastating.
There’s no reason to think that you’ll be capable of loyalty to a diet until you address your basic disloyalty toward yourself.
In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.
Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.
Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts.
The Project Angel Food Program’s mission is to nourish the body and spirit of men, women and children affected by HIV/AIDS and other serious illness. The Project Angel Food Program delivers free and nutritious meals prepared with love. We act out of a sense of urgency because hunger and illness cannot wait.
The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress.
When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
The Republican corporatists are worse than the Democratic corporatists, but only to a degree. And Republican corporatists are at least true to their principles, however abhorrent those principles might be to some of us.
In ‘Healing the Soul of America,’ I wrote about Gandhi’s notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.
Many people are despairing of the possibility of finding love. And some of the people who are despairing the most are in their thirties and forties and looking just great.
