The next message you need is always right where you are.
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing.
The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours.
Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.
Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.
The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.
I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.
Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object.
Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.
Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it’s the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations.
Inspiration is God making contact with Himself.
When we see the Beloved in each person, it’s like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.
Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell.
Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.
Look at the people you don’t love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart.
When our hearts open, when we know that we are in fact the world, when we experience the pain of others in our own blood and muscle, we are feeling compassion.
When you are completely identified with your thinking mind you are totally separate from everything else in the universe.
Behind everyone’s learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego.