“Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.”

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.

Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it’s mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I’ve ever met in my life struggles with fear.

Many of us are frightened to look within ourselves, and fear has us put up walls so thick we no longer remember who we really are.

When you begin the process of unhooking from the outer world, you can find literally hundreds of places where you have given your power away and drained your life force while guaranteeing the status quo.

People, when they come up to me, are like, “Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?” And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.

So I suppose the answer is I see myself in all my characters, in their best moments and in their worst.

The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.

This is the case with thousands: they appear desirous of knowing the truth, but have not patience to wait in a proper way to receive an answer to their question.

You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about.

When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.

Who am I, and where am I going? You are the answer to this question. You are here to ask the question, and to be the answer.

Meditation and prayer have withstood the test of time. They work today as perfectly as they did for those who first practised and perfected them.