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

The commitment to love always transforms, heals, and opens new avenues of creativity.

Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.

The decisions that you make and the actions that you take upon the earth are the means by which you evolve.

A joyous person abounds with energy and feels buoyant, because he or she is running a higher frequency current of energy through his or her system.

Knowledge is power, and for each level of knowledge, you are held responsible for how you use it.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.

Do you love the truth more than you need to be loved, or do you need to be loved more than you love the truth?

Be mindful of the words that you use and the actions that you live and who you are and how it is you use your power. Keep clear at all times that you are what you say you are.

Change in yourself what you want to change in the world.

To experience relationships of substance and depth requires approaching and entering into relationships with consciousness and concern for the other.

You are a dynamic being of Light that at each moment informs the energy that flows through you. You do this with each thought, with each intention.

Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality…Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.

If you want to have the kind of relationship that your heart yearns for, you have to create it. You can’t depend on somebody else creating it for you.

Practice moderation in all things except love.

What is in one is in the whole, and therefore, ultimately, Each soul is responsible for the whole world.

Try to realize, and truly realize, that what stands between you and a different life are matters of responsible choice.

Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.

I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.

An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.

What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

Yoga is when you feel pure consciousness and spirit.

Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.

For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness.