Resting in Awareness, we transform all the 'stuff' of our lives.

The pain of the world will sear and break our hearts because we can no longer keep them closed. We've seen too much now. To some degree or other, we have surrendered into service and are willing to pay the price of compassion. But with it comes the joy of a single, caring act. With it comes the honor of participating in a generous process in which one rises each day and does what one can. With it comes the simple, singular grace of being an instrument of Love, in whatever form, to whatever end.

Give it all up and you can have it all.

Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.

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.

From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.

As the haves and have-nots split further and further apart, destabilization ultimately leads to revolution, not evolution. If we're playing the evolution vs. revolution game, we are closer to revolution than we are to evolution in my concept.

The final awakening is the embracing of the darkness into the light. That means embracing our humanity as well as our divinity. What we go from is being born into our humanity, sleep walking for a long time, until we awaken and start to taste our divinity. And then want to finally get free. We see as long as we grab at our divinity and push away our humanity we aren’t free. If you want to be free, you can’t push away anything. You have to embrace it all. It’s all God.

In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.

We gain internal freedom through external actions.

Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.

The most exquisite paradox; as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.

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

There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events.

Suffering lets us see where our attachments are - and that helps us get free.

I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. To love their souls, I have to identify with my own soul.

I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.

I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.

My guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.

In the depth of the soul is the atman, the oversoul. And that oversoul is really love and compassion, peace, joy, and wisdom.

This is the pathless path - returning to where you were initially before you got lost. The deepest truth in you is where the journey leads - shedding, like taking off layers of an onion, until you come to your essence. The key to the spiritual journey is not acquiring something outside of yourself. Rather it is shedding the veils to come back to the deepest truth of your being.

The person who says, 'I'm enlightened' probably isn't.

Religions are institutions that push you up the mountain and then they have their fantasies about the spirit. I mean they try to make God like the human psyche and it's wrong. I mean it's a projection of the mind, and you can use it to get a start and then you must leave it behind.