“The shadow is not a problem to be solved or an enemy to be conquered, but a fertile field to be cultivated. When we dig our hands into its rich soil we will discover the potent seeds of the people we most desire to be.”

The unmet need that can get met right now is the need to be whole, to be both your magnificent, divine self and your imperfect, human self.

When you trust the universe, you get to play in the magical world of God’s plan.

When you are grounded in the present – feeling your feelings, listening to your body, tasting your food, and expressing your ideas – you do not build up toxicity. You digest your experience as you go.

Become aware of your negative expectations and practice replacing them with positive expectations.

Love is the answer, the spiritual solution that holds the power to end the war that rages within each of us.

Heaven is the experience of being completely present to all that is, all that you are, and all that you have to give. Are you choosing to live in heaven or suffer in hell?

I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother’s dress.

Truth is the key to unlocking the door to divine confidence. This is a truth that can be felt only when you get out of your head and into your heart. When you’re blind to this truth, you’re left to the limited power of your human will.

All real change requires risk. You must take risks every day of your life. You must get up each morning and ask…: What can I do that is different?

A wise person once wrote, “Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person would die.” But the only one dying is ourselves.

It’s not our job to assess the merit of our vision or judge its importance. It is our job to receive the vision and act upon it.

To ignite your confidence and reclaim your courage, you must step into the highest vision of who you are. The only way to do this is to make the journey back into the arms of the Divine.

Standing in our power demands that we be vulnerable, listen to our own voice, and take risks outside the comfort of what we know.

If we want a new future that does not look like our past, we must make new choices in the present.

Live in the knowledge that you are a gift to the world.

To experience emotional freedom, we must accept, surrender, and let go of our wounds. We must be willing to take responsibility for what we’re holding on to, which is usually a hurt or pain from the past that leaves us feeling victimized.

We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.

Maybe. But the reality is that our early interests are fragile, vaguely defined, and in need of energetic, years-long cultivation and refinement.

We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.

It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly.

As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,

A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?