The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.
The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.
If you want to cure the world, don’t emanate fear – emanate love.
We’ve gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul’s only motive is to merge with the Beloved.
The dance goes from realizing that you’re separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.
You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.
Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.
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.