You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.
Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
And this is the marvel of marvels; that he called me Beloved.
The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
Study the past if you want to define the future.
Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.
A job is how you make money. A career is how you make your mark. A calling is how you acknowledge a higher vision, whatever it may be.
Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don’t realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.
Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you’re back in time.
Through being “right”, you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego.
Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.
If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.
Think higher, feel deeper.
There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
True love requires sacrifice.