If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.
Judaism is interesting in that there is something there that I think you just can't understand if you're not a Jew - it moves into a realm of true mystery.
With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.
People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day.
Tax breaks and other financial breaks that favor the wealthiest among us do not create greater prosperity for all; they simply siphon off more and more money to those who already have it, and more and more money away from those who do not.
I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.
The Project Angel Food Program's mission is to nourish the body and spirit of men, women and children affected by HIV/AIDS and other serious illness. The Project Angel Food Program delivers free and nutritious meals prepared with love. We act out of a sense of urgency because hunger and illness cannot wait.
The whole Obama phenomenon brings up memories from my distant past: the good-looking guy who talks real good, whose line you don't buy immediately but whose charm is so dazzling that he gradually convinces you that this time it will be different.
The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.
Sometimes it's easier to love people when there is a healthy distance between us.
It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.
I don't think I represent some new category. I think I do represent kind of a freethinker.
I would never, ever in my life say, 'I want to go to Washington to heal the soul of Washington.'
Corporate totalitarianism means total control by corporate interests. If they want a war, they get a war. If they want GMOs, they get GMOs. If they want fracking, they get fracking. If they want big banks to control our monetary policy, big banks control our monetary policy.
When America does what's right, it's such a light on this planet.
I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.
One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.
In all the great religious systems, there are divine beings who represent the feminine face of the divine.
At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.
Successful businesses create jobs; that is true. But the notion that if we cut taxes enough for the very rich and for already hugely profitable businesses, then all that money will trickle down to everyone else in the form of job creation is simply false.
