Sheldon Kopp: All God's Children Are Lost, But Only a Few Can Play the Piano

Kopp, Sheldon. All God's Children are Lost, but Only a Few Can Play the Piano. New York, NY: Prentice Hall, 1991.
1. No matter how well our lives are going, there will be times when we ask ourselves, "Is that all there is?"
2. When  you think the meaning of life has been lost, what you need to find is yourself.
3. Everyone feels lost and alone at times.
4. The fulfillment we need lies buried deep inside us.
5.  Where are you in your life?
6. Why aren't you more like yourself?
7. If we endure the holy insecurities, we can find the higher power within us
8. No one else can find your higher power for you.
9. When you follow your heart, you will find your way hoome to your true self and the people you love
10. The traveling and the sense of arrival are inseparable
11. To live your own life, you have to create your own story.
12. If you withdraw from others for a while, you can discover who you are that they aren't.
13. Making an inner journey is a risky business--it can transform your life.
14. The solitary path to the depth of our souls leads us to the edge of oru aloneness and back to a place among others that is truly our own.
15. Every soul has its own shadow side.
16. In the dark night of our souls, we can begin to see the sparks from the higher power within.
17. Trying to will ourselves to be different won't work.
18. The only victory lies in surrender to oneself.
19. All of you is worth something, if you will only own it.
20. Accepting our weaknesses frees our strengths.
21. We all experience predicaments that make us feel upset and unprepared.
22. Every crisis presents a crossroads, and paths open up we may never have seen otherwise.
23. Whether or not life is fair is irrelevant.
24. Asking "why me?" is useless. The only question that counts is, "Where do I go from here?"
25. What if God doesn't want us to be caged in our lusts, but to be free in them?
26. Then whatever goes on in our imaginations is nobody else's business.
27. We want so much to seem normal and nice, we're tempted to hide the very things that make us singular.
28. The false images we create to conceal our real selves from others may fool ourselves as well.
29. Until we realize that the monster of others' expectations is jst a paper tiger, we remain threatened by their concepts of who we ought to be.
30. When we honour our peculiarities, we can make the most of all the unique things we are.
31. We must know what we feel, say what we mean, and do what we say.
32. Why would God make us all so different and then allow only one way to serve Him?
33. When we act in accord with both our heads and our hearts, everything we do becomes a form of prayer.
34. Whatever we are undertaking at the moment is the most important thing we can do.
35. True hope is possible only after we experience true despair, facing all the little deaths in life and the great death that awaits us thereafter.
36. Feeling fully alive doesn't depend on what we believe in, but on how we experience each great and small moment in our lives.
37. God dwells wherever people let Hiim in.
38. We can let Him in only where we really stand, where we live a life that is truly our own.