If you think you are free, there is no escape possible.
There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe.
Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you.
The sooner one develops compassion in this journey, the better. Compassion lets us appreciate that each individual is doing what he or she must do, and that there is no reason to judge another person or oneself. You merely do what you can to further your own awakening.
This is the pathless path. Where the journey leads is to the deepest truth in you. It is really just returning to where you were initially before you got lost.
The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain – to just be with it all.
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.
The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light.
Within the spiritual journey you understand that suffering becomes something that has been given to you to show you where your mind is still stuck. It’s a vehicle to help you go to work. That’s why it’s called grace.
All that you seek is already within you. In Hinduism it is called the Atman, in Buddhism the pure Buddha-Mind. Christ said, ‘the kingdom of heaven is within you.’ Quakers call it the ‘still small voice within.’ This is the space of full awareness that is in harmony with all the universe, and thus is wisdom itself.
In meditation we can watch the itch instead of scratching it.
The way you come to fully appreciate the infusion of the Spirit is to more and more come fully into the moment, where this moment is enough.
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.
It’s only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.
What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
We’re sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we’re not getting any sunshine!
The gift you offer another person is just your being.
Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.