Quotes, Sacred Cows & Other Useful Trouble

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they might be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

This being human is a guest house, every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all!

It is not what happens to us that disturbs us; it is our thought about what happens to us that disturbs us.

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe… Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

In the Universe, there is an immeasurable and indescribable force which those who live of the source call 'intention' — and everything in the entire cosmos is attached to intention by a connecting link.

A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don't allow the happy moment because they're so busy trying to get a happy life.

Keep interacting with them as if they were God. And every time you get garbage from them, give space to the garbage and go back and interact with them as if they were God.

You're not worthy, and you're not unworthy. You're nothing.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too… Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.

Results in your life are consistent with the consciousness out of which you operate.

There is nothing but wellness.