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Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.
We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying so.
I don't think that my twenties were any more dramatic than those of most people I know. I was never that bad and I never became that good.
Accepting people as they are has the miraculous effect of helping them improve. Acceptance doesn't prohibit growth; rather, it fosters it.
Always seek less turbulent skies. Hurt. Fly above it. Betrayal. Fly above it. Anger. Fly above it. You are the one who is flying the plane.
Whatever situation you're in: Send love, place it in God's hands, open your heart to everyone involved - and it will turn out miraculously.
The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.
You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.
There is an emergent enlightenment appearing today, unique to no particular culture or ethnicity. Anyone who chooses to be, is its conduit.
The love is what's left at the end because it's the bedrock, fundamental reality that gets hidden all the time, but never really goes away.
There are people today who look to fear to take us out of fear. But I believe that there are many, many more people who would look to love.
Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same.
If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.
Imagine the week ahead unfolding in an ever-increasing flow of miracles. Allow the image to sink into your heart. Receive it with a big yes!
Imagine everything you're experiencing now being a hundred times more wonderful. Bad turns good; good turns great. THAT IS WHAT IS POSSIBLE.
Love is not neutral. It takes a stand. It is a commitment to the attainment of the conditions of peace for everyone involved in a situation.
Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional change.
In most of our situations in life, if we take a good honest look at our lives, we are holding to small, limiting thoughts, cynical thoughts.
So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.
The love that saves us is not a love that might come to us in the future, but rather the love we can give to whomever is around us right now.
Anything having to do with what is happening inside people has political significance to me. That is why I like the term "holistic politics."
We need to recognize that part our political problem is that we do not participate effectively, that we suffer from a kind of mental slumber.
I don't think of myself as a very famous person, but the modicum of celebrity that I've had has not been a positive experience for me at all.
Often miracles are happening right in front of our eyes, but we think they should look different, so we miss them though they're right there.
We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.
The struggle between Israelis and Palestinians is a perfect reflection of the struggle between fear and forgiveness that rages within us all.
If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience.
The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.
Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight.
To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten.
We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.
Jesus was a human being who, while on Earth, completely self-actualized and fulfilled in all ways the potential glory that lies within us all.
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.
Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.
The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to.
There is an increasingly pervasive sense that one age is over and a new one is beginning - in business, in politics, in science, in psychology.
Taking the time to meditate is as important as taking the time to breathe. One pumps oxygen into the body, the other pumps peace into the mind.
Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.
People involved in the inner journey discover the value of the feminine, the spiritually receptive and inclusive aspect of human consciousness.
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.
We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.
Magic happens when you tell the universe what you want it to do for you; miracles happen when you ask how you can be of service to the universe.
Look at Fukushima. Should we or should we not agree with the U.S. government that none of that radioactive energy is making its way here? Hello!
Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.
Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.
A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.
As we give, so shall we receive. Service does not mean self-sacrifice. It means giving the needs of another person the same priority as our own.
Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related.
When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.
God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.