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.
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.