“No matter who you are, you have a giant self.”

When I found those things, I felt liberated. I found resilience of spirit, realized I had much to offer and gained abundance.

It’s a challenge that we also feel more than any other time because it’s in the news and social media. It’s in our families.

I say to this generation: “We must encourage these kids.” Tell them they are wonderful and capable. Be their cheerleader.

There are those who need walks in nature or they feel depressed. Your linchpin is the pin that makes the wheel go. If you lose it, the wheel falls apart.

Maybe your path is completely different from what you imagined.

More than any previous time, people are drawn to meditation, to mindfulness, to yoga. These have become mainstream in the West because there is a hunger.

She helped me wake up to the fact that I had a source of creativity that was my true creative nature and when I embraced it and asked for this presence in my life.

In my own life, there were many things that didn’t happen for me in the outside world, but that gave me an opportunity to look inside to find my spirit, my courage, my confidence and ultimately, to find my heart.

Contemplating the immensity of our cosmos can make you feel very small and insignificant. But think about it.

There is division with people in our lives, as well as political division and religious division.

I felt as if the dam of the Niagra Falls had burst and all sorts of wonderful things started to happen when I found my voice.

How many times have you prayed or asked or said you needed help, when suddenly somebody showed up in your life? We are all connected through our thoughts.

We forget that our bodies are the most valuable, precious thing we have and take that miracle of life for granted.

Treat yourself as if you were someone inexpressibly dear to you.

I urge people to be a scientist about what they want and ask themselves why they want it so badly.

I am the openess you seek, I am your doorway. Come sit in the circular temple of my heart, & let yourself be calm.

To know existence as this flow, empty of lasting pleasure, void of self, is to find that which is stable and free of suffering, to find true peace in the world.

I do not condemn any personal choices for intimate relationships. Love is love.

One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain.

I am self-taught. In other words, God is my teacher.

The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying.

What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.

When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.

Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.