"From a universal perspective, what you do matters less than how you feel about what you do."

"Time itself is only as real as your own mental discrimination between the revelation and concealment of the one Light."

"The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all."

"No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been."

"The only thing we need to heal is the belief that we are not already whole."

"The stories you believe to be true are the ones your life will become."

"Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul."

"The purpose of life is to reach a point where you can say 'yes' to all of it."

"Our instrumental part in the symphony of life is to allow love to create a space within our own awareness, through which the undreamed mystery may emerge as a knowable reality."

"All hatred is self-hatred, just as all healing is self-healing."

"Judge not, lest ye miss out on all the fun."

"In the same way that Americans now look back with horrified disbelief on the evils of slavery and the 'separate but equal' era of racial segregation, many years from now our children and grandchildren will reflect on this time in history and wonder how and why we ever chose to criminalize marijuana usage and homosexual marriage while poisoning our natural world in the name of economics."

"We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful."

"Feeling bad is not the problem.The problem is that we feel bad about feeling bad.Once you begin to let go of feeling bad about feeling bad,and start feeling better about feeling bad,then pretty soon you'll just feel better.And then you'll feel awesome."

"To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to the one Light unperceived."

"Acceptance is the vessel of realization."

"Love is the perception of perfection beyond the protection of our projection."

"Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be."

"Each person you meetis an aspect of yourself,clamoring for love."

"Belief is made up of the same non-substance of which we ourselves are composed. The test of any belief system, then, is the degree to which this same light is permitted to shine through."

"If you want to see, then begin to see how you see."

"In our need to be somebody, we often forget that we are somebody."

"To the ego, love is poison."

"Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence."

"Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life."

"We do not see things as they are, nor do we even see them as we are, but only as we believe our story to have been."

"The sacred stillness of your brilliant hearthas as the myriad wonders masqueraded.But if you knew this secret from the start,then you'd have quit this Game before you played it."

"It doesn't matter how you conceive of divinity. It only matters that you see it in everything, including yourself."

"You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your feet."

"The shortest interval between two points is the awareness that they are not two."

"What matters in relationship isn't how you see each other, but whether you see each other."

"I searched for my Beloved in the strangest of places, until the day I realized I couldn't take my eyes off Her."

"Imagination makes the worldand all the wonders in it.The seed of every dream unfurlsas you with love begin it!"

"Transform your desire into love, and limits start to lose their usefulness."

"The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation."

"The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves."

"The way to embody love completely is to see and appreciate life just as it is, and not as you believe, fear, or desire it to be."

"The purpose of suffering is to contain the light of your desire until you see yourself in everything."

"I always have my reasons, even when I don't know what they are."

"We free our own mindseach time we pause to wonderwhether we are free."

"With or without our knowledge, we are all alchemists."

"Love is the highest form of meditation."

"All stories are born out of illusion, but that doesn't mean they're not worth telling."

"A peaceful mind appreciates the present moment as the living embodiment of naked perfection, rather than a means to future attainment."

"Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless."

"I knew I loved youwhen 'home' went from being a placeto being a person."

"As you begin to look deeply into the mystery of your own evolution, in place of good and evil you will find only stories, finished or unfinished."

"As a rule,I believe people shouldn't follow rules;rules should follow people."

"Every 'no' is a 'yes' to something."

"You invoke a new futurewhen you envision your pastin the light of your present."