The heart of the matter is a matter of the heart.

It's important to embrace several truths about yourself and those around you, beginning with this one: who you AREN'T isn't interesting.

What happens is our lives become so heavily oriented around the expectations of others that we become more and more like them and less and less like ourselves. We become split. I was split. I had this person I knew I was made to be, yet it was mixed in with all of these other ... people. As the lights were turned on, I saw I had all of this guilt and shame because I wasn't measuring up to the image of the perfect person I had in my head.

I have a mind myself and recognize Mind when I meet with it in any guise.

People may hate you for being different and not living by society's standards but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same.

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

Everybody has something good inside them. Some hide it, some neglect it, but it is there

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.

Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.

God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.

Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.