"Withhold no good impulse. You may fear that you will run to excess and squander too much, but those feelings are born of fear. In God's reality, the more you give of yourself-in feeling, generosity, self-expression, goodness, creativity, and love-the more you will be given."
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"Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time."
"This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present."
"The more boundless your vision, the more real you are."
"Foods that are deep blue, purple, red, green, or orange are leaders in antioxidants and contain many nutrients that boost immunity and enhance health."
"The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity."
"If I find a green meadow splashed with daisies and sit down beside a clear-running brook, I have found medicine. It soothes my hurts as well as when I sat in my mother's lap in infancy, because the Earth really is my mother, and the green meadow is her lap."
"Religion is believing someone else's experience, spirituality is having your own experience."
"That silent gap between your thoughts is your window to the cosmic mind."
"Only the heart knows the correct answer. Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it's not. The heart is intuitive; it's holistic, it's contextual, it's relational. It doesn't have a win-lose orientation. It taps into the cosmic computer - the field of pure potentiality, pure knowledge, and infinite organizing power - and takes everything into account. At times it may not even seem rational, but the heart has a computing ability that is far more accurate and far more precise than anything within the limits of rational thought."
"The mind and the body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one"
"When something seems to change in the world, the rishis said, it is really you that is changing."
"There are only 2 responses to the world, fear or love. Your life depends on which one you choose."
"Every decision I make is a choice between a grievance and a miracle."
"Mastery of awareness requires that you never take personal offense."
"Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given."
"Affluence includes money but is not just money. It is the abundance, the flow, the generosity of the universe, where every desire we have must come true, because inherent in having the desire are the mechanics for its fulfillment."
"Tidal rhythms have an effect on our physiology.... When we feel out of sorts, our body is out of sync with the body of the Universe. Spending time near the ocean, or anywhere in nature, can help us to synchronize our rhythms with nature's rhythms."
"Our thoughts are always pulling us into the future or the past, away from the present. But it is in the present moment that we find Spirit, our essential being and the force that animates all life."
"Take away all your labels and you are the Infinite Being."