Your every ill-thought, secreted hate, cynical and vicious judgment you carry is meant only for you.

Thank you adversity. Oh, how we stretch and grow in the shadows of darkness just to reach the light.

Brute force will sometimes get you through a challenge, but usually not without hurting and depleting yourself in the process.

Nothing on earth is as unbearable as dealing with other people if you are a person who lacks compassion and understanding.

We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.

Support what is good and spit out what is bad. Get off of your knees and reject the role of slave to the culture of violence.

An important step in escaping mediocrity is to stop worrying about what other people think of you.

Choose to be pro-active, assertive and self-defining.

Hurts are just alerts, to rise above through love.

People have moments of consciousness and epiphanies throughout their lives, but then suppress the realization.

There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people.

Create some clear space and then you will know exactly what to do.

Sometimes, to escape a bad relationship and reclaim our lives, we have to break a piece of our heart off, like a wolf chews its leg off to escape a steel trap.

* No belief or idea is sacred, unless it treats all people as sacred

When you find real love — protect and preserve the sweetness and intimacy of your gift.

Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving.

Most of your problems exist because your heart is hard and you are being arrogant.

Control is not humble; control is arrogant.

Rejecting predatory capitalism in America is a way to respect and honor America.

Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death.

It is the socially determined norms and traditions of gender roles, which must be challenged, and challenged with vigor. In nearly all countries, including America, the truth is that women have a low social status,...

Giving is the key to all success in all applications of human life.

The moment we confront our fears we are declaring that we are contenders for life, and for love.

It is good to have a dream, as long as the dream does not have you.

There is an invisible hand at work in the making of beautiful lives.

Be as light as a feather and when they reach for you — you will blow right by their grip; you will effortlessly flow to safety.

Gentle walking is completely transformative for the body and mind.

If you want relief from pain just strive to touch more of every part of life.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man’s cruelty and...

Beauty is reaching for you if you you will hold out your hand in good faith.

Are you free or were you sold a facsimile of freedom?

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed against the body, but against the freedom of the consciousness.

The tides of change have great purpose in our lives.

Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant; both victim and aggressor.

Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul; dreadful losses that rupture your perceived reality. Pain so visceral and unrelenting that even death itself can begin to look like a welcomed...

Get out of your own way. Learn to exist gracefully and peacefully with yourself.

The world, as it is, is not a permanent reality, but is a temporary product of our choices as creators.

The adept is only adept, because such an instrument she crafted and bowed her soul to be.

Work to become whole enough to love and to be loved.

A person who is humble would never be abusive or selfish; so don’t abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.

No construct on earth will stand, that does not stand for the least among them, as their advocate and humble servant.

Your greater purpose is already written in the fabric of your being; your purpose awaits your arrival.

There is no such thing as perfection and it is okay for you to have negative thoughts.

Nothing grows in the shadow of want without the sunlight of acknowledging your fullness.

You have to have faith if you want to make it out of the woods. Faith is your only hope for deliverance.

In today’s world simple kindness is a revolutionary act.

Even when something is not your fault, toxic blame has no place in your life. Focus on your own empowerment and healing.

Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities.

The offspring of nationalist thinking too often expresses itself in exclusionary and passively-violent legal policies, and then sadly, through militarism, which becomes manifest on the endless blood-soaked borders and battlefields of humanity’s great failure as...

Treat others with respect and you will always be wealthy, because your community is your real currency.