“Developing personal power includes learning not to negotiate your self-worth for the sake of someone else or sell yourself short for a job.”

Faith in anything, be it positive or negative, produces results. Putting faith in fear generates destructive results, beginning with the disintegration of our ability to relate confidently to the external world.

So long as we use comfort and security as our criteria of success, we will fear our own intuitive guidance because by its very nature it directs us into new cycles of learning that are sometimes uncomfortable.

The reason you have descended into physical life is to unleash the power of your soul upon Earth.

Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person.

Between thinking and seeing, there is a place called knowing.

When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful.

Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength and weakness, of one’s capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most challenging person to control in life is ultimately yourself.

If you don’t appreciate what you have in life right now, whatever it is, you will never realize your purpose. Without appreciation, you will never become strong enough to respect yourself.

The love that flows through your heart purifies not only your own spirit, but the love you share with others.

Your spirit is the part of you that seeks meaning and purpose. It’s the part drawn to hope, that will not give in to despair.

While we measure our own success in terms of our personal comfort and security, the universe measures our success by how much we have learned.

Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of other people. They are meant to teach us to become compassionate and wise.

Master your responses to external events–don’t attempt to control them.

Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering.

Spiritual maturity is measured not by the sophistication of a person’s opinions, but by their genuineness and the courage necessary to express and maintain them.

People know when they’ve betrayed themselves. They are very much aware when they are not honest with themselves. They hear the voice that says, “You shouldn’t have said that” or “You know that’s not right.”

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.

The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery … As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of science.

I think that the formation of [DNA’s] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular genetics in recent years.

As with a wound on one’s own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things.

Spirituality helps develop good character. It is character that shines bright when words fail to do so.

Over time, we as humans have developed a different attitude towards nature and we’ve forgotten about our inner power.

I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.