“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.”

We need truth to grow in the same way that we need vitamins, affection and love.

An authentically powered person lives in love. Love is the energy of the soul. Love is what heals the personality. There is nothing that cannot be healed by love. There is nothing but love.

Your life is an opportunity to give the gifts that your soul wants to give.

You lose power to the people and circumstances you judge. They capture your attention in the same way that a movie does.

Being harmless means being so strong, so empowered, that the idea of showing power through harm is not even a part of your consciousness.

Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.

The first step toward spiritual growth is to become aware of your emotions.

If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light.

Allow yourself to experience what it is to learn step by step the freedom that comes from being unattached to the outcome, but operating from an empowered heart.

The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.

Each moment is a moment of choice ~ a time to leave the old, the limited, the restrained, and the contracted for the new, the unbound, and the liberating potential that expands before you.

If we perceived life with reverence, we would stand in awe at the experience of physical life and walk the earth in a very deep sense of gratitude.

Authentic needs are the needs that are always met by the Universe.

Awareness is a blissful state, not a painful one.

When you seek to dominate another you dominate no one but disempower yourself.

As your temptations become greater, so does your ability to make responsible choices.

We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.

Feeling peaceful, happy and content is not about avoiding challenges in our life, but about how we navigate through these challenges to reach the type of life we want to live.

Always seeing the best in people and choosing to avoid their faults.

Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.

I’ve told you the four thunderstorms – disappointment, frustration, unfairness and isolation. You cannot avoid them, as like the monsoon they will come into your life at regular intervals. You just need to keep the raincoat handy to not let the spark die.

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.