As a spirit schooled to power, his perception stems from one absolute. Universal harmony begins with recognition that the life in an ordinary pebble is as sacred as conscious selfhood.

One day God felt he ought to give his workshop a spring - clean…. It was amazing what ragged bits and pieces came out from under his workbench as he swept. Beginnings of creatures, bits that looked...

You, my Lord, are the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. You will not grow tired or weary, and Your understanding no one can fathom. You give strength to the weary and increase the...

When seen through the lens of a servant's heart, leadership becomes not just a job but a calling. Lives are changed for the better. Next-generation leaders are molded. Along the way, the sense of...

It was foul, and I loved it. I loved to perish. I loved my own - not that for which I erred, but the itself. Base, falling from Your firmament to utter destruction - not seeking anything through the...

Late have I loved you, Beauty so very ancient and so ever new. Late I have loved you! You were within, but I was without.

... O God, here, as so often, I cannot help. Let me not forget she is your child and your concern makes mine as nothing.

Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised. Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.

Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, and though a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud and so is a soul.

The soul is a verb. . . . Not a noun.

Light in love is joy. Light in faith is hope. Light in compassion is mercy. Light in gratitude is contentment. Light in understanding is awareness. Light in intellect is discernment. Light in...

In the lowest Hell you find ignorance. In the lowest Heaven you find shrewdness.

Light gave birth to the existence. Existence gave birth to reality. Reality gave birth to eternity. Eternity gave birth to time. Time gave birth to life. The past gave birth to the future. The future...

In one sense, faith is about embracing this bigger story and allowing our own story to become part of it.

Man was made to sit quietly and find the truth within.

Stay humble; don't interfere; respect your creative genius

Self-actualizing people see the unfolding of God in everyone that they meet. They go beyond appearances. They are friendly with anyone and everyone regardless of class.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Allow yourself to become aware of the nonphysical reality that you are a part of. Reach out to the angels or occupants of this higher invisible plane. Know that you can access guidance from those...

Remove all unloving thoughts from your mind, and practice kindness in all of your thoughts, words, and actions. Cultivate

to remind ourselves of our intention, which is to get higher and

Death is not possible to life any more than a shadow can kill light. Truth is not impaired or negated by falsity, and only its expression can be misunderstood or misrepresented. There is no opposite...

In contrast, nonattachment allows full participation in life without trying to control outcomes.

The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the spirit within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew. I have seen this unity with my eyes,...

Saint Anthony once wrote about having gone into the desert on silent retreat and being assaulted by all manner of visions - devils and angels, both. He said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered...

Once the troublesome mind begins to compose speeches and dream up arguments, especially if these are clever, it will soon imagine it is doing important work. But if you can surpass those thoughts,...

What I said to God through my gasping sobs was something like this: 'Hello, God. How are you? I'm Liz. It's nice to meet you.' That's right - I was speaking to the creator of the universe as though...

I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.

God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an...

I do not live when I lose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really live only when I feel him and seek Him