This intelligence and this competence within the human system exist in every human being but unfortunately remain untapped.

We have become so accustomed to planning, worrying, organizing, controlling that we have forgotten how to step back and exist in the moment.

Lies are self-abandonment. They are a place where we avoid showing ourselves exactly as we are, and so ultimately they come from fear.

You can find inner peace and greater awareness in the middle of Manhattan, just as you can be stressed out and worried while walking on a paradise beach.

The distraught entrepreneurs soon learned that the beaver's coat grows thick when the animal experiences fear. With no bears, there was no fear, and so their coats did not grow!

The following incident, which took place when I first established a retreat center in Colombia, shows that an inherent desire for peace permeates humanity across the globe.