Occupation: Teacher Birth: April 6, 1931
The most exquisite paradox; as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all..
I love everybody. Even George Bush..
Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not….
We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering..
We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves..
Treat everyone you meet like God in drag..
Gratitude opens your heart, and opening your heart is a wonderful and easy way for God to slip in..
As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is..
You are joy, wisdom, peace, compassion, and love.
Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings..
Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it..
We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not..
I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the d….
I will work on myself, since the work on myself is going to be the highest thing I can do for it all, since I understand that as man up-levels his ow….
Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free..
You see that who you are isn't moving in time. Time is describing the incarnations, the packing changes..
The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely….
The person who says, 'I'm enlightened' probably isn't..
The ego is frightened by death, because ego is part of the incarnation and ends with it. That is why we learn to identify with our soul, as the soul ….
I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am..
I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. I have to identify with my own soul. And then I can have such compassio….