“If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.”

I have lived enough to know great things will unfold for me externally only if I allow them to unfold for me internally.

The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.

Inner peace doesn’t come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

Every bird that sings, sings for you. Every breeze that blows, blows for you. Every sunray shines for you. If you only knew how loved you are.

Prepare for the new; expect the new; embrace the new. Otherwise, you’ll just repeat what’s old.

We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.

Just like a sunbeam can’t separate itself from the sun, and a wave can’t separate itself from the ocean, we can’t separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.

Think bigger. Forget limits. Embrace the idea of endless possibility…. It will change you.

You playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won’t feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.

The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.

Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness – all karma is burned.

It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what’s wrong in your life, or you can focus on what’s right.

In any moment, in any circumstance, a miracle will occur when we align ourselves with truth.

Change is in the air, as old patterns fall away and new energies are emerging. Consciously release what needs to be released, and welcome with a full embrace the newness you’ve prayed for and so richly deserve.

It’s darkness without you, or didn’t you know? That the sunshine goes with you, wherever you go.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

I think perhaps I will always hold a candle for you – even until it burns my hand. And when the light has long since gone I will be there in the darkness holding what remains, quite simply because I cannot let go.

The darkest night always ends in morning light.

Our eyes are at fault, that is all. God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment.