I’ve lived in worlds where there are three or four suns. We had incredible sunsets, beautiful. But they weren’t more beautiful than here, if my mind is more beautiful in each life.
Letting go is the hardest thing. Everybody is so afraid. They’re so afraid of eternity. They’re so afraid of life. They’re so afraid of what’s on the other side of death. There is nothing but light. God is everywhere.
Everything depends on your state of awareness. If your state of awareness is low, then all the material success in the world won’t help.
The whole quality of your life depends on your state of mind. There are very high states of mind that very few people experience. They are also quite pragmatic and practical and they make you more efficient at living and working in the world.
To become more aware, it is necessary to do something that you haven’t done. Everything that you have done will only make you as aware as you are now.
Anybody or anything can become enlightened because enlightenment is the very nature of existence itself.
You can know the secrets of life. It doesn’t happen to anyone special. You just decide that you want an uncommonly fine life and you will it.
You are everything and everyone. You are in all things. You exist in all conditions. You are the universe. You just think of yourself as existing within a temporal body.
Be the exceptional being who separates themselves from the herd and the fate of the herd.
You don’t need anybody to tell you what is right or wrong. What you need, perhaps, is someone to show you how to come to those understandings.
You are on a vast wheel of birth and death. You have been through thousands of lifetimes, thousands yet to come.
Sometimes we can’t do anything about our social condition, but we can do something about our condition of light.
Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to it. You have become bound to it.
I know a lot of wealthy people in West Los Angeles. Money doesn’t necessarily make you happy.
They are not happy out there. Take a walk today and look at how many people smile. Look at how troubled they are, unhappy, stressed out. Go through the ghetto or go through Beverly Hills.
It’s just not working. One nation trying to destroy another, one race trying to destroy another, one religion trying to destroy another – It’s the same old story over and over again.
The life that we see on our small planet is not necessarily a great reflection of the entire universe. The people are beautiful, but they tend to destroy one another. That’s not an operative principle in all dimensions.
There are different pathways that lead to enlightenment. We could say that everyone’s life is one of the pathways. Your life is a pathway that leads to enlightenment.
There was a time when you came forth from infinity, your essence that is. You’ve always existed, and you’ll always exist. But there are different states of mind in the universe.
People who are involved in self-discovery lead different types of lives. The lives they lead are not necessarily the lives of renunciation. Rather, it is a structuring of the elements in your life in a particular way.