But we hippies had a saying: “You can’t find yourself till you lose yourself.” You have to let go of everything that you’ve been taught and find a way of being happy with your own existence and bless all your imperfections. It’s a way of seeing your own ego, pulling all the levers and controlling your behavior, like some Wizard of Oz behind a scree

we are at our best when we get out of our own way. People get stuck in their stories. My advice is to end your story and begin your life.

There’s a very noble concept that Eastern Buddhists have: you are the gardener of your own mind. It’s the idea that you have to take responsibility for your thoughts, to catch and stop yourself from thinking thoughts that are inappropriate or hurtful.

The Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch,

The mind is a creature of labeling and encapsulating and filing things into categories. But this was music that was begging the soul to tell the mind to shut the hell up, turn up the volume, and not worry about what to call anything.

Real philanthropy isn’t about pushing money—it’s about moving light, and it doesn’t matter how many zeros you have to the right in your bank account as long as you have a 1 on the left.

the book A Course in Miracles

“This is going to be the best day of my life.”

if you want to heal something, you can’t do it in the dark. You have to bring it into the light.