“Too often we love people who don’t love us, but we fail to return the love of others who do.”

Our values are influenced by whatever absorbs our minds.

I am happy about who I am becoming. I am open to all opportunities and possibilities. I am worthy of real love. I am ready to serve with all I have.

Our search is never for a thing, but for the feeling we think the thing will give us.

Life’s too short to live without purpose, to lose our chance to serve, to let our dreams and aspirations die with us.

Everything you do is your spiritual life.

Yesterday is but a dream. Tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

When we accept the temporary nature of everything in our lives, we can feel gratitude for the good fortune of getting to borrow them for a time.

We don’t have to do everything, that we can’t do everything, that what I can’t do is someone else’s gift and responsibility. My limitations make space for the gifts of other people

You are not your success or your failure.

Being present is the only way to live a truly rich and full life.

Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.

Criticizing someone else’s work ethic doesn’t make you work harder.

When someone hurts you, it’s because they’re hurt. Their hurt is simply spilling over. They need help.

Negativity is a trait, not someone’s identity.

When the fear of staying the same outweighs the fear of change, that is when we change

A layperson who is consciously aiming to be continuously alive in the Now is a monk.