Let’s trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let’s lay down our righteousness and just be together.
We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.
Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion – and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.
We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not.
The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody.
As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.
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.