Occupation: Teacher Birth: April 6, 1931
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..
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..
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..
You may have expected that enlightenment would come ZAP! instantaneous and permanent.This is unlikely.After the first ah ha expereince, it can be tho….
Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It's all the same trip..
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 secre….
Be patient. You'll know when it's time for you to wake up and move ahead..
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed..
Don't think about the past. Just be here now..
The satsang is - within the mass culture - like little mushrooms here and there, and somebody, maybe a Christian and a Hindu and a Buddhist, come tog….
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 ….
The cosmic humor is that if you desire to move mountains and you continue to purify yourself, ultimately you will arrive at the place where you are a….
Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together..
If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family..
There are no accidents..
A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And I said, "Yeah!" Because my guru is in ….
The suffering is in the mind. The mind. In the mind. Witness it. From your spiritual heart..