We have allowed an unholy alliance of government - the new monarchy - and corporate influence - the new aristocracy - to take control of events in a way that would have made our Founders shudder.
We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.
I place my life in the hands of God each day. And I trust that He knows what He's doing, even when I do not.
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.
It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.
I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
I'm proud to say I was part of a movement in which we sang 'All You Need Is Love' at political rallies.
God is definitely out of the closet.
Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.
All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.
The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.
When God created the world, he didn't draw a line between Canada and America.
God is limitless in His love, and asks that we at least make the effort to be limitless in ours.
Would a man ever be called vain for speaking his mind?
Over the years, many people on a spiritual journey have asked me why I keep going on about politics, and many people involved in politics have asked me why I keep going on about spirituality.
People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.
I trust life not because I trust the world, but because I trust the God who lives in my heart.
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.
The Western world is having an identity crisis.
The basic premise of 'A Course in Miracles' is that it teaches us to relinquish thoughts based on fear and to accept instead thoughts based on love.
