I've Learned Over The Years That When I Go To That Place Of Passion Within Me, There's No Force In The Universe That Can Interfere With My Completing A Project.
Van Gogh Never Made A Penny In His Entire Lifetime. He Painted Because It Was His Soul, His Excitement. It Was What Aligned Him With His Source Of Being. It's The Same With Me And Writing.
In My Own Life I Know That My State Of Cheerfulness Is A Reliable Gauge Of My Level Of Spiritual Enlightenment At That Moment. The More Cheerful, Happy, Contented, And Satisfied I Am Feeling, The More Aware I Am Of My Deep Connection To Spirit.
Heaven Is A State Of Mind, Not A Location, Since Spirit Is Everywhere And In Everything.
I Always Tell Audiences When I Talk About Writing: Writing Isn't Something I Do; Writing Is Something That I Am. I Am Writing - It's Just An Expression Of Me.
Find Joy And Solace In The Simple, And Cultivate Your Utopia By Feeling The Tao In Every Cubic Inch Of Space.
I Implore You To See The Universe As A Warm And Supportive One Because You'll Look For Evidence To Support This View. When You Anticipate That The Universe Is Friendly, You See Friendly People. You Look For Circumstances To Work In Your Favor. You Anticipate Good Fortune Flowing Into Your Life.
I Grew Up In An Era Of Pretty Severe Poverty. My Parents Weathered The Great Depression, And Money Was Always A Very Big Concern. I Was Weaned On A Shortage Mentality And Placed In Foster Homes Largely Because There Simply Wasn't Enough Money To Take Care Of The Most Basic Of Needs.
I Think And That Is All That I Am.
Whenever You're Going Through A Tough Time, Generally, You Become More Compassionate, You Become Softer, You Become More Thoughtful, Kinder. These Are All Spiritual Qualities That Will Help You To Align Yourself With God And God Consciousness Rather Than With A Split Fear-based Consciousness.
My Purpose Is To Help People Look At Themselves And Begin To Shift Their Concepts. Remember, We Are Not Our Country, Our Race, Or Religion. We Are Eternal Spirits. Seeing Ourselves As Spiritual Beings Without Label Is A Way To Transform The World And Reach A Sacred Place For All Of Humanity.
Comfort And Luxury Are Usually The Chief Requirements Of Life For Your Ego - Its Top Priorities Tend To Be Accumulations, Achievements, And The Approval Of Others.
My Own Eight Children All March To The Beat Of Their Inner Music, And In Some Cases, It Is Definitely Far Away From What I Hear. I've Had To Honor Their Instincts And Their Choices, And Merely Guided Them Out Of Harm's Way Until They Could Be Their Own Guides.
The Willingness And Ability To Live Fully In The Now Eludes Many People. While Eating Your Appetizer, Don't Be Concerned With Dessert.
I Have Always Marched To My Own Beat, And Most Frequently, It Was Inconsistent Not Only With My Own Immediate Family, But With My Culture As Well.
If Life Is A Checker Game, Someone Else Is Moving The Pieces. It Isn't Us. Don't Be Surprised By Amazing Coincidences. There Are No Accidents. Consider, As I Learned To Do, The Incredible Interconnectedness Of All Of Life.
Be A Force Of Love As Often As You Can And Turn Away Negative Thoughts Whenever You Feel Them Surface.
Be A Force Of Love As Often As You Can And Turn Away Negative Thoughts Whenever You Feel Them Surface.
I Never Sell A Book. I Sell Myself. And The Way To Sell Yourself Is To Be An Instrument Of Love.
Highly Functioning Self-actualized People Simply Never Imagine What It Is That They Don't Wish To Have As Their Reality.
A Person Standing In Front Of An Audience Without Enthusiasm For His Subject And His Actions Is Disconnected From His Spirit.
I Think That Cancer Is A Life Form That Exists Out There, And It Exists In Us. I Think Even The Concept Of Healing Is A Spiritual Principle That We Have To Really Look At. I Think The Word Itself Is Something We Ought To Get Rid Of, Because It Implies That There Is Illness - That There Is Something Wrong.
My Enthusiasm Seems To Cause My World To Endlessly Offer Me Cooperative, Co-creating Experiences. I'm Willing And I'm Eager, And Not Just About My Writing - I Feel The Same Way About Staying In Shape, Enjoying My Family, Giving A Lecture, Or Whatever It May Be.
Meditation Is A Vital Practice To Access Conscious Contact With Your Highest Self.
I Write Because Writing Is Something That I Have To Do. And It Doesn't Matter Whether People Like It Or Not. When I Write, I Feel The Pressure And Anxiety That Come With Taking An Empty Piece Of Paper And Trying To Fill It With Something From Your Own Consciousness.
There Is Not A Separate God For Each Person. There Is One Universal Intelligence Flowing Through All Of Us.
Writing Is Challenging Work Because It's So Easy To Get Consumed With How It's Going, What's Going To Happen To It, Who's Going To Like Or Not Like It. You Want To Get All Of That Stuff Out Of Your Head And Just Let The Work Flow.
Water Is The Softest Of All Things, Yet It Is The Most Powerful. The Ocean Patiently Allows All Things To Flow Into It. It Is Always Flexible. The Tao Is Not About Grasping, But Allowing, Like Water.
You Cannot Be Lonely If You Like The Person You're Alone With.
I Don't Write With A Machine. I Write With A Pen And A Paper, Which Is What Is Most Comfortable For Me.
As The Father Of Eight Children, I'm Quite Convinced That Each Individual Arrives Here With Their Own Unique Personality. We Are Intended Here From An Invisible Held Of Infinite Potentiality. That Which Has No Form, Has No Boundaries - It's The I That's In The Ever-changing Body.
I Spent Years Studying The Teachings Of Patanjali, And He Reminded Us Several Thousand Years Ago That When We Are Steadfast - Which Means That We Never Slip In Our Abstention Of Thoughts Of Harm Directed Toward Others - Then All Living Creatures Cease To Feel Enmity In Our Presence.
As I Followed My Dream - Stayed In-spirit, That Is, Inspired - I Made More Money In The First Year After I Gave Up My Employment Than I Had Made In The Previous 35 Years Of My Life.
Writing Is Like Anything Else - The More You Do It, The Better You Get At It, The Easier It Comes, And The Less Concerned You'll Be About What's Going To Happen To It, Where It's Going, What It Sounds Like, Whether It's Right.
Take The Complications, Rules, Shoulds, Musts, Have Tos, And So On Out Of Your Life. By Uncomplicating Your Life And Removing The Trivial Pursuits That Occupy So Much Of It, You Open A Channel For The Genius Within You To Emerge.
When Your Higher Self Is Present, It Always Promotes Peace.
I Have Observed That Society In General Always Seems To Honor Its Living Conformists And Its Dead Troublemakers.
Simply Put, You Believe That Things Or People Make You Unhappy, But This Is Not Accurate. You Make Yourself Unhappy.
I Have Observed That Society In General Always Seems To Honor Its Living Conformists And Its Dead Troublemakers.
The Truth Is That You Can Only Come To Know God When You Give Up The Past And The Future In Your Mind And Merge Totally Into The Now, Because God Is Always Here Now.
Stop Acting As If Life Is A Rehearsal. Live This Day As If It Were Your Last. The Past Is Over And Gone. The Future Is Not Guaranteed.
If You Change The Way You Look At Things, The Things You Look At Change.
There Is No Scarcity Of Opportunity To Make A Living At What You Love; There's Only Scarcity Of Resolve To Make It Happen.
What Comes Out When Life Squeezes You? When Someone Hurts Or Offends You? If Anger, Pain And Fear Come Out Of You, It's Because That's What's Inside.
There's Nothing Wrong With Anger Provided You Use It Constructively.
Our Lives Are A Sum Total Of The Choices We Have Made.
Anything You Really Want, You Can Attain, If You Really Go After It.
Successful People Make Money. It's Not That People Who Make Money Become Successful, But That Successful People Attract Money. They Bring Success To What They Do.
You Are Important Enough To Ask And You Are Blessed Enough To Receive Back.
Deficiency Motivation Doesn't Work. It Will Lead To A Life-long Pursuit Of Try To Fix Me. Learn To Appreciate What You Have And Where And Who You Are.