You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
We are no longer ambitious for ourselves, but are rather inspired by the vision of a healed world.
Purity of heart will not make us poor.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.
Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of Heaven.
It takes courage – this is often called the path of the spiritual warrior – to endure the sharp pains of self-discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.it.
In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.
Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.
Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And never do it for the money. Don’t go to work to make money; go to work to spread joy.
Available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy