When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.
Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.
Only the present moment contains life.
Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.
Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world.
Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.
In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom.
By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.
Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.
As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.
Suffering only shows where you are attached. That is why, to those on the path, suffering is grace.
As you ask and feel and believe, you will receive.
We are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, and formed for a family, and none of us can fulfill God’s purposes by ourselves.
Christianity is not a religion or a philosophy, but a relationship and a lifestyle. The core of that lifestyle is thinking of others, as Jesus did, instead of ourselves.
You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.
Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you.