If you allow your perceptions to be dominated by a status-quo perspective these thought forms create a network of status-quo mental habit patterns.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

‎"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

No one is any more or any less important than you are.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

She inhaled a worry. She exhaled a prayer." Mary Lou Quinlan, author

It seems to me that really crazy people don't think they're crazy. Why would you?

Most people cant' deal with reality, but indulge heavily in fantasy and fear.

Ultimately, we have to have the wall on the border. If we don't have the wall, we are doing nothing.

All happiness is inside your own mind. Chances are, you have not discovered that. Meditation is about experiencing the happiness inside your mind.

I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints.

Dreams are matters of the heart, things that pull you along as if they have hooked you someplace deep inside.

You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.

I have a red line against the Americans.

Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.