Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.

The first step toward spiritual growth is to become aware of your emotions.

If I were to remain silent, I’d be guilty of complicity.

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you’re put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

For the spiritual being, intuition is far more than a hunch. It is viewed as guidance or as God talking, and this inner insight is never taken lightly or ignored.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love.

Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not do to others what thou wouldst not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Don’t try to steer the river.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

Complete surrender usually happens through living. Your very life is the ground where that happens. There may be a partial surrender and then there may be an opening, and then you may engage in spiritual practice.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.