When you want to become free, your righteousness and anger are much less interesting than they used to be.
Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
Who you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn’t make any difference to who you truly are.
The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different.
There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life’s events.
Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.
Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying.
In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn’t who I am.
It’s very hard to grow, because it’s difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we’ve invested so heavily.
As you look at many people’s lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in it. They make their lives a living hell, but a familiar one.
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.