The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

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.

Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.

God is definitely out of the closet.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.

As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

Joy, has no cost.

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.

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.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.

A lot of my traditional audience does not appreciate my foray into politics.

A threat to our freedom is a threat to our freedom, whether from a terrorist or from a trade deal.

Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.

All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.

Allopathic doctors used to laugh condescendingly at those who posited that psychological, emotional and spiritual factors were important contributors to the sickness as well as healing of the body.

America has swerved from its ethical center.

America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.

Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both.

Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we'll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check.

An angry generation will not bring peace to the world; I do believe that.

An educated child earns more later in life, knows how to keep their own children from dying, produces more food, is less likely to get AIDS, and in the case of boys, is less likely to engage in armed civil conflict.

An enchanted love, an awakened love, between two people is a blessing on the entire world.

Any conversation which does not include the context of the journey of the heart is by definition untrue to who we are as human beings.