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.
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.