Occupation: Teacher Birth: April 6, 1931
If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love..
So many times each day we support each other informally without ever becoming 'helper' or 'helped.' Perhaps we're finding an article of clothing for ….
Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell..
Finally you come to a point where you almost know it all. You are very wise. You are very pure... except for the fact that you may well have gotten c….
When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us..
If you want oneness in society, you have to teach people to go inside instead of going outside, because if they want peace, they need to find it with….
Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the suffering, pity is a c….
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise..
I like walking in the pool. That isn't what makes me feel spiritual. But alive..
So your first job is to work on yourself. The greatest thing you can do for another human being is to get your own house in order and find your true ….
What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution..
The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear..
The witness is always in the here and now and it lives in each instant of living. To be in the witness is to listen with a still heart, with a waitin….
Witness your thoughts. Your thoughts are attachments..
If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients and we can meet as fel….
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..
My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too..
The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible..
The root of compassion is not empathy; that is kindness. Kindness is great, but it is not the ultimate compassion. Ultimate compassion relieves the s….
At the moment when there's nothing more to lose, the Ego breaks open - and then we see who we are behind who we thought we were..
When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. Its a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not ….