A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories .
You don’t have to add anything in order to be happy; you’ve got to drop something.
You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can’t be seen as a “thing”; he needs a special way of looking similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs .
Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with them. They come and go.
One day, a philosopher asked, “What is the purpose of creation?” “Lovemaking,” said the Master. Later, to his disciples, he said, “Before creation, love was. After creation, love was made. When love is consummated, creation will cease to be, and love will be forever.”
People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
God in heaven holds each person by a string. When you sin, you cut the string. Then God ties it up again. Making a knot, bringing you a little closer to Him. Again and again your sins cut the string and with each knot God keeps drawing you closer and closer.
May the peace of God disturb you always.
The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.
Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught .
The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.
Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
All suffering comes from a person’s inability to sit still and be alone.
Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.
If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.
Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence. Where would the problem be? No problem. You created the problem. You are the problem. You identified with “me” and that is the problem. The feeling is in you, not in reality.
How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.
You are never in love with anyone. You’re only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.
It’s only when you become love – in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments – that you will “know.” As you identify less and less with the “me,” you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.