You must clear out what you don’t want, to make room for what you do want to arrive.

Growth and empowerment requires reflection and facing the frightening, ugly, hard and unbearable reality.

Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions — which become your life.

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

Look in your disappointments for the resolve to transform your experiences into solutions.

Start thinking of your guilt as being selfish, because guilt blocks opportunities from arriving for those you care about and for you.

Who you are is why you choose poorly, or fail to choose wisely.

Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

When you accept fallibility within yourself you become more perfect.

Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people.

You already have and are; your value is intrinsic.

Conflict is a natural part of existence. Life is a struggle for survival for every organism at every level.

It is exclusively other people’s responsibility to please themselves.

Brightly burning passion is the releasing of your essence, your specialness and your gifts to the world.

Be the love you seek.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

Cynicism is one of the terrible obstacles to progress.

Hold faithfully to your unique vision and your detractors will eventually tire and give-up.

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

Materialism is an identity crisis.

Love is not about others; love is a practice of self-mastery.

The fearful person wilts and submits to what they call fate. The fearless negotiates with fate for a compromise.

Only in stillness does the imperceivable become discernible

Spirituality is like a thin-thin thread, that if delicately followed guides us from darkness to light; from poverty to abundance and from destruction to safety.

People love most those who love themselves.

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

Allow the hammer of pain to split open the stone armor of your hardness; exposing the tenderness and beauty of your sweet spirit and sacred heart.

There is something beautiful in every person that never dies, no matter their misfortunes.

From time to time, in the moments when you need it most, God will speak to you to remind you of your beauty.

The acceptable is unacceptable. The truth is a lie. The good is pure evil. Even freedom has become a prison.

Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man.

We must remember that we cannot change others, we can only change ourselves.

Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people’s failures.

Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.

We must take the money out of politics, and end psychopathic, self-destructive government and corporate madness.

Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbor of humanity’s great aspirations.

Women are controlled by men like a currency of the world.

Your future begins with your next thought.

One of the greatest things you can learn in life is to be compassionate, and true compassion includes compassion for yourself.

Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of “their own people,” to the exclusion of other human beings.

You will find your purpose revealed in every single action, once you realize that — you — are your purpose.

One positive thought is something you can accomplish.

The real ladder of opportunity is ascending levels of consciousness.

Real humility is graceful power, not a mandate to be victimized and abused.

Without love and compassion, nothing is sacred.

Silence is the sublime refuge of your divine.

Only inner-mastery can bring outer-mastery.

Patriotism is merely deeply-rooted government brand loyalty.

Love is a lens of an observer. Love is an attitude with action.

Deep-rooted beliefs are one of the many consequences of intellect, and also of ignorance; and telling one from the other is sometimes impossible.