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.
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.
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.