As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.

The next message you need is always right where you are.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

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.

Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love.

Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

We're here to awaken from the illusion of separateness

Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.

When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.

If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.

Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!

Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.

In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?

Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.

I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!

There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.

By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

Prolong not the past Invite not the future Do not alter your innate wakefulness Fear not appearances There in nothing more than this

Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.

In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear.

I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.

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.