77 Guiding Principles

…To Lead A More Meaningful Life

1. We Are Here To Serve One Another
2. Each Of Us Holds The Answer To Someone’s Prayers
3. The Most Selfish Thing We Can Do Is To Be Selfless
4. You Get What You Give
5. The Greatest Defeat We Can Suffer Is the Distance Between What We Are And What We Can Be
6. It’s Love That Acts
7. To Be Real, Love Must Be Unconditional
8. It Only Takes a Single Ray of Light to Penetrate the Dark
9. God Is At The Heart Of Everything
10. Prayer Is The Language Of The Heart

11. Compassion Is Man’s Highest Attribute
12. The Only Things Of Real Value In Life Are The Things That Cannot Be Replaced
13. The Things Of Greatest Value In Life Are The Things We Can Share Without Diminishing By Sharing
14. The More We Are Given, The More There Is That Is Required of Us
15. Love Is The Essence Of The Soul
16. There Are No Permanent Solutions
17. The Material Is Immaterial
18. Forgive And Forget
19. Life Questions Man
20. Nothing Of Value Can Be Accomplished Without Faith

21. Man Cannot Live Without Hope
22. God Rarely Gives A Truly Big Idea To Only One Person
23. There Is No Distance Between Souls
24. All Life Is Sacred
25. God Speaks With Silence
26. God Has No Religion
27. When We Are Engaged In Helping Others, We Are Not So Much Conferring Favors As Canceling Debts
28. The World Was Created For The Purpose Of Giving
29. Nothing Of Value Can Be Accomplished Alone
30. The Greatest Good We Can Do Is Not To Share Our Wealth With Others But To Reveal To Them Their Own

31. No Gift Is Truly Ours Until God Has Blessed Someone Else With It Through Us
32. Every Person In Our Lives Is There For A Purpose
33. We Need Each Other
34. What Happens To One Is Often For The Benefit Of Another
35. Love Connects Us By The Deepest Part Of Ourselves
36. There Is No Commandment To Like Your Neighbors
37. No Matter How Great The Differences May Seem Between Us, Below and Above All Is The Eternal Fact Of Brotherhood
38. Most Of The World’s Problems Result From The Absence Of Love, Love Withheld, Or Love Denied
39. You Help Yourself When You Help Others
40. Ego Is The Enemy

51. What We Think and Believe, We Do and Become
52. You Will Know the Right Place By The Joy It Brings
53. The Quickest Way To Improve The World Is To Start With Yourself
54. More Often Than Not, We Make A Difference Not By Some Single Act Of Momentous Consequence But Rather By Small, Sustained Acts Of Caring And Compassion
55. Live A Life of Limited Regrets
56. The Greatest Regret In Life Is The Sense We Have Never Fully Become Ourselves
57. The Greatest Gift Is To Be Able To Give
58. When You Do Something Good, Write It On An Ice Cube
59. Souls Are Lost in the Distance Between Doing the Right Thing and Doing the Right Thing for the Right Reason
60. Our Existence Is Shaped By What We Choose To Love

61. All We Have Is Today
62. The Future Is Now
63. Adversity Introduces Us To Our True Selves
64. If We Are To Grow And Thrive, We Must Draw On The Best Part Of Ourselves
65. There Is A Promise In Every Pain
66. The More Our Lives Are Etched By Suffering The More Compassionate We Can Become
67. Despair Is Suffering Without Meaning
68. There Is No Cross Love Can’t Bear
69. Life is Defined by Death
70. Everyone Makes a Difference

71. The Only Thing That Separates Us From God Is The Belief That We Are Separate
72. We Are Punished Not So Much For Our Sins As By Them
73. When We Die Nothing Ends
74. We Grow Toward The Light
75. God Waits
76. God Weeps
77. What We Do With What We Have Is More Important Than What We Have