“Spiritual awakening doesn’t require a new experience; it’s simply seeing clearly what‘s already happening.”

“The antivirus program will not wake up your computer if it isn’t running — but if it’s already running, then it doesn’t need to be awakened.”

“Spirituality is about being awake. It’s the attempt to transcend the mundane, sleepwalking experience of life we all fall into, to tap into the wonder of being a conscious and grateful thing in the midst of an astonishing universe. It doesn’t require religion. Religion can, in fact, and often does, blunt our awareness by substituting false (and dare I say inferior) wonders for real ones. It’s a fine joke on ourselves that most of what we call spirituality is actually about putting ourselves to sleep.”

“How do you change what you believe when your experience has convinced you othervise? By creating a new experience. The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens. By the natural law of cause and effect, that new response will create new results, which you will then experience as a new reality. To reach the goal of happiness, act as though the following statement is already true: Everything that happens to me is the best thing that can happen to me.”

“It’s such an amazing awakening to realize that nothing in this universe happens TO YOU, 100% happens FOR YOU.”

“Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.”