Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life – there, if one must speak out, the real man.
Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world’s despair.
A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love-from a belief in what is not real, to faith in that which is. That shift in perception changes everything.
The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.
Only God’s Thoughts – or love – is actually real. So when we separate ourselves from that love, we’re actually not thinking at all: we’re hallucinating.
The Real You isn’t damaged goods. The Real You is the light of the universe.
Real intimacy; real love has to do with a joining of the mind, a joining of the spirit, a joining of the heart.
The real axis of social change is not horizontal, but vertical. We don’t need a whole bunch of people gathering to think shallow thoughts together. What we need is for as many people as are ready to gather and think deep thoughts together.
The outer kingdom is not our real home. The inner kingdom is our everything.
The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.
The world we knew as children is still buried within our minds. Our childlike self is the deepest level of our being. It is who we really are, and what is real doesn’t go away.
We think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we’re trying to be special rather than real. We’re pathetically trying to conform with all the other people trying to do the same.
We’re hallucinating. And that’s what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.
A real leader is not the top dog who merely shouts down orders. A leader is one who holds the space for the brilliance of others.
The real transformation of the world comes not from what we are doing but from the consciousness from which we are doing it.
It doesn’t take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.
I don’t look at myself as a commodity, but I’m sure a lot of people have.
It’s nice to be included in people’s fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.
Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don’t mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden.
The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home.