“You cannot, and will not, encounter a circumstance, or a single moment, that does not serve directly and immediately the need of your soul to heal.”

Forgiveness means that you do not carry the baggage of an experience.

Your personality is a tool of your soul.

Angry people attract angry people and live in an angry world and this validates their opinion that the world is angry.

The place to begin the task of eliminating evil is within yourself.

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

An intention is a quality of consciousness that you bring to an action.

When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you.

Your experiences are not limited to what you have created in the past.

Reverence is simply the experience of accepting that all Life is, in and of itself, of value.

The purpose of soul questions is to open yourself deeper and deeper until all that is left is the power and beauty you are bringing to the lives of others.

The human emotional system can be broken down into roughly two elements: fear and love. Love is of the soul. Fear is of the personality.

A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it. Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention from winning to learning about yourself.

Do not insist that the universe comply with your understanding of it.

It is not until you have the courage to engage in human relationships that you grow.

You do not stop losing power by refusing to recognize your fear, by anesthetizing yourself to what you feel. The road to authentic power is always through what you feel through your heart.

If you strive only to avoid the darkness or to cling to the light, you cannot live in balance. Try striving to be conscious of all that you are.

Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality.

Wherever we may be, or whatever our circumstances, the Lord Jesus sees them. We are never beyond the reach of His care.

Character is not a product of circumstances, it’s the thing that survives it.

You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.

The essence of America – that which really unites us – is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea – and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world.

The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.