You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.

A moment comes when "other" is no longer other.

As one individual changes, the system changes.

If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know one!

We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.

Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.

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.

When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.

The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.

When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.

You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.

Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW...so you stop asking.

You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.

Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.

When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.

What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.

Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.

I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.

Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.

Those who know do not talk And talkers do not know.”—Tao Te Ching

The world is won by those who let it go.

I didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.”—A. Einstein

The freer I get, the higher I go. The higher I go, the more I see. The more I see, the less I know. The less I know, the more I’m free.

Once you have drunk from the water of unconditional love, no other well can satisfy your thirst. The pangs of separation may become so intense that seeking the affection of the Beloved becomes an obsession.

Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse.

Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it’s all open and it’s all love.

Ephrem the Syrian says, ‘Good speech is silver, but silence is pure gold.’ ”—Way of a Pilgrim

You two are together in the stars, but not in this world, in this life.

IT’S BETTER TO SEE GOD IN EVERYTHING THAN TO TRY TO FIGURE IT OUT.

And suddenly I realized that he knew everything that was going on in my head, all the time, and that he still loved me. Because who we are is behind all that.

The art of listening comes from a quiet mind and an open heart.

You are ever again the wave sweeping through all things RAINER MARIA RILKE, BOOK OF HOURS

The epitome of the human realm is to be stuck in a huge traffic jam of discursive thought. —Chogyam Trungpa

When your center is firm, when your faith is strong and unwavering, then it will not matter what company you keep.

Who in all his works sees God, in truth he goes to God.

SEE GOD IN EVERYONE. IT IS DECEPTION TO TEACH BY INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND KARMA.3

If you listen to your own inner voice, it will tell you where you are now, and which method will work best for you in your evolution towards the light.

Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair.

You base your faith on experience, your faith is

I take the dust from the lotus feet of the guru to cleanse the mirror of my mind.” So begins a sacred ode to Hanuman.