“The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.”

Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities.

You are not creating a new you; you are releasing a hidden you. The process is one of self discovery. The hidden you that wants to emerge is in perfect balance.

The most satisfying project you will ever undertake-and a mark of a complete human being-is to discover how to build a sense of happiness that no one can take away from you.

Feel the world, instead of trying to understand the world.

Know that people are doing the best they can from their level of awareness. Accept people for who they are and always be ready to forgive.

People are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness.

First, say to yourself, ‘I’m totally independent of the good or bad opinions of others.’ Second: ‘I’m beneath no one.’ Third: ‘I’m fearless in the face of any and all challenges.’

The Higher Self is whispering to you softly in the silence between your thoughts.

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the cosmos.

The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.

Start by thinking of the smallest possible action you could take; then, take it. Then, choose the next smallest action, and do that.

The world “out there” won’t change until the world “in here” does.

Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant.

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don’t blame others or make excuses for yourself.

Before making a decision, ask inside for guidance. Be patient and await an answer. Act only when you feel calm and certain.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.

Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

I have been seized by the power of a great affection.

What you don’t owe would never hurt you.

You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one’s life, without being influenced in one’s decision by any inordinate affection.