If you meditate regularly, even when you don’t feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.
Love flows. Love doesn’t know boundaries. The mind creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart just keeps embracing and opening out.
You can’t build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.
I love everybody and they, in turn, love everybody, and that’s spreading love heart to heart to heart. That’s my approach of my work.
If you want oneness in society, you have to teach people to go inside instead of going outside, because if they want peace, they need to find it within.
Nature is really important because it’s a manifestation of love that hasn’t been run through human minds.
Institutions don’t change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions.
Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the suffering, pity is a controlled set of thoughts designed to assure separateness. Compassion is the spontaneous response of love; pity, the involuntary reflex of fear.
The ego is a tool. You don’t separate it. It’s a tool for the spirit.
I’ve got to love the souls of people. Because I can’t love every incarnation. To love their souls, I have to identify with my own soul.
Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.
Our culture’s zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death.
I don’t really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.
Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.
Be patient. You’ll know when it’s time for you to wake up and move ahead.
Real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes, but simply is.
Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.
The person who says, ‘I’m enlightened’ probably isn’t.
You have all the time in the world, but don’t waste a moment.
Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.