Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their p….

Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?.

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit..

Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness..

Commitment is inherent in any genuinely loving relationship..

If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out?.

In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the burning bush, the parting of th….

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health..

If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution..

The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline..

I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving m….

Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I belie….

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior..

We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We h….

The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's….

Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human nature is its mutab….

Whenever we think of ourselves as doing something for someone else, we are in some way denying our own responsibility. Whatever we do is done because….

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual gro….

To heal your body, you must first heal your spirit..

It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success an….

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or org….