“Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.”

Once you know that every moment and every person and every situation has something to teach you, you’re a student all day. You know it’s the depth of your observation that is the issue – not how much the world has to show you.

Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.

Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don’t yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.

Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.

Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.

We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.

When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.

Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don’t like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.

Your future isn’t programmed by your past; it’s programmed by your thoughts.

Your character defects are not where you’re bad, but where you’re wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it’s yours now and you’re responsible for it.

Consider the possibility of infinite possibility.

Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called “All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

For every person who might reject you if you live your truth, there are ten others who will embrace you and welcome you home.

Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we’re mad at people, we’re angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.

Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.

The only way the past can drag you back is if you choose to bring it with you into the present.

Where it gets weird is that nowadays there are millions of people on this earth who call themselves followers of Jesus, but their lives look nothing like His, and they’re not obeying the things that He called them to do.

This earthly life is a battle,’ said Ma. ‘If it isn’t one thing to contend with, it’s another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.

The moment we take our last breath on earth, we take our first in heaven.

The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we’re alone in the universe.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.

In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

On our knees we are the most powerful force on earth.