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

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.

Into your darkest corner, you are safe in my love, you are protected.

My greatest life lesson has been to not wait for the opportunities to come to me. I realize how important it is to be proactive and to create the opportunities myself.

We are not alone and we all have ample creativity within us if we just trust it.

I see the meaning of apocalypse as an unveiling of our deeper self.

I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That’s a great way to freeze up.

Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad.

False self is an identity based on what you have, what you do, and what others think about you. In stark contrast to this is the true self in Christ, which is who we are before God and in God – Christ living in us, as Paul put it to the churches in Galatia.

The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.

A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it’s positive, it is considered subjective. And ‘objective’ means it is accurate, and ‘subjective’ means it is conceited self-delusion.

The power of self goes beyond words. Self confidence, self improvement, self esteem, self enhancement, self love … Get yourself right first!

The best self promotion is your next book. And the book after that and after that.