"Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons."

"We can only save ourselves through elevating our individual consciousness, by realizing there is already completeness within, and exercising as much considerate independence, respect and fairness as is possible."

"Love only serves and does not calculate. Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts. Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free."

"Rather than communicating blame communicate your standards for proper future treatment."

"The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it."

"If you are miserable you grow in misery and if you are joyful you grow in joy."

"America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth."

"God's favorite type of prayer is action."

"Evolving and bettering yourself is wonderful, but not if the set of standards and values you adopt smothers you into oblivion in the process."

"The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information."

"So stretch! Reach for it. Like falling down stairs, where your inner-genius takes over and saves you - your instincts are ready to serve you."

"We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands."

"To move forward, simply set your intentions, be grateful for what you have, be open to what is possible, and the rest will happen, as a beautiful and effortless journey of cooperation and listening."

"The truth is now as it was yesterday, and as it always will be, that the world is-as we are."

"Nothing great ever happens from thinking small."

"Be kind to one another and seek beauty in all you do."

"Joy is a practice, not an involuntary state."

"Sure. You want to be touched, inspired and made to feel alive. But a relationship is like a bridge where you meet other people half-way. That means if you want to be touched, inspired and made to feel alive, you have to be touching, inspiring and bring the fire of your aliveness to the union of your companionship."

"REJECT THE LIES AND VIOLENCE. STAND FOR LOVE, TRUTH, DECENCY AND THE COMMON GOOD."

"When you are doing things for the right reasons, you do not need to play by the rules, because there are no rules for a creator walking the path of love."

"Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love."

"If this is a smart world then I want to be stupid."

"We can change the world one thought at a time, one child at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time, one city, one state and one country at a time."

"You will be blessed the moment you realize you already are."

"Nature is the ultimate technology; a technology we are still too immature, arrogant, possessive and careless to care for responsibly."

"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."

"The gift of life is present at every moment - even moments that seem insignificant or unpleasant."

"Self-love the perfect soil from which to grow love."

"When you blame others, you are affirming that you have no power, and your existence is only a reaction to the power of others."

"If you want more opportunities you have to become an opportunity for others. As you advance yourself your opportunities advance too."

"The secret is in realizing your internal gifts and then setting them free."

"Misery loves good company, so if you are surrounded with drama, gossip and fools you may want to consider that you are presently at risk of becoming one of them."

"The public good must come before private interests."

"The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men, for we are, that we might have joy, and be free."

"Blame anchors us into the past, a place we cannot change. Acceptance frees us to the future."

"America has a unique type of slavery that looks like freedom."

"This very moment is your greatest adventure."

"Love exalts because it is exalted."

"Healthy surrender means allowing yourself to "be" rather than being in a constant state of want."

"Dreams do come true for those who dare to believe in themselves."

"A democracy of mean and ignorant people is just as scary as any other horrible form of government."

"You will either have value, or be grist for the mill - nothing more."

"When you are speaking to someone else you are really speaking only to yourself."

"Be aware of negativity but do not let it take root in the sinews of your creative spirit."

"We also self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves."

"Low-grade pain can be so rooted in your being that the pain begins to look like you, and you begin to look like the pain - it becomes your identity."

"Real problems can't be fixed with a motivational poster, a cute quote or a pat on the back."

"Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone."

"Western "freedom" is a sophisticated form of control."

"Rejection is merely a redirection, a course correction to your destiny."