Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.
Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
If I haven’t received any grace today, then I was not at home. This is because God is sending deliveries constantly.
Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.
The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God.
You do not have to change for God to love you.
You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you can learn from me or anyone.
Problems only exist in the human mind.
You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That’s what all the mystics are saying.
Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.
Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it’s pointing.
The present moment is never intolerable. What’s intolerable is what’s going to happen in the next four hours. To have your body here at 8 pm and your mind at 10:30 pm, that’s what causes us suffering.
Life is easy, life is delightful. It’s only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.
When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients; when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils; when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories .
What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn’t harden itself to any persons or things.
To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one’s hands. So what you need is light, not fit.
Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!