American - Author | July 8, 1952 -
The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always now.
Marianne Williamson
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Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.
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I believe that hunger for a 'lost dimension' of experience is a natural yearning in all of us, and it doesn't go away just because we ignore it. It is evidenced among other places in the millions of children and adults who obsessively read the 'Harry Potter' books. It is said that fiction is where someone gets to tell the truth.
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Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.
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Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.
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Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.
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We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting mistakes.
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Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious.
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When you turn your life over to God, you don't give up the drama; you give up the cheap drama.
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We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
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May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
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We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.
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