If I’m going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I’m going to live, the best way to prepare for it is to quiet my mind and open my heart.
We’re fascinated by the words – but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
We’re being trained through our incarnations – trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.
All you can do for another person is be an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air, they could.
Thoughts are going by like a river; awareness simply is.
If you feel a sense of social responsibility, first of all keep working on yourself. Being peaceful yourself is the first step if you want to live in a peaceful universe.
Suffering only shows where you are attached. That is why, to those on the path, suffering is grace.
Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.
Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.
The soul is not part of the incarnation. It comes into the incarnation. And the soul is not afraid of death because it has done it so many times.
The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening.
When you see the beloved all around you, everyone is family and everywhere is love.
As one individual changes, the system changes.
Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
I’m not interested in being a “lover.” I’m interested in only being love.
When the heart is open, it’s easier for the mind to be turned toward God.
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body.
All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
When we’re identified with Awareness, we’re no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.