“A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower.”

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.

The reason so many of us are obsessed with becoming stars is because we are not yet starring in our own lives. The cosmic spotlight isn’t pointed at you, it radiates from within you.

The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.

Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.

Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.

The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.

A relationship is more of an assignment than a choice. We can walk away from the assignment, but we cannot walk away from the lessons it presents. We stay with a relationship until a lesson is learned, or we simply learn it another way.

Forgiveness is the key to inner peace because it is the mental technique by which our thoughts are transformed from fear to love.

No matter what the problem, a miracle can solve it. Remember to ask for one.

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.

Let’s forgive the past and who we were then. Let’s embrace the present and who we’re capable of becoming. Let’s surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.

Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.

The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.

In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.

I think artists should be able to do different things whenever they want and I like the way I am. I’m like – I ain’t gonna say the only street rapper, but the only mainstream, new, young street rapper there is right now and I’m doing well with it.

I’ve had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room. It was sweet and very different.

Me and Kendrick [Lamar] have different types of music. He from a different coast; we ain’t in the same lane.

I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different.

Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.

That’s what I love about how diverse our team is – we have such different body types, yet together, we build the best team there is. I think we’re stronger together than individually.

The closer you get to people who are different than you, the more you learn that we’re all same.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.