You see that who you are isn't moving in time. Time is describing the incarnations, the packing changes.

Drop your identification with the illusion of separateness.

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.

At first you think that your sadhana is a limited part of your life. In time you realize that everything you do is part of your sadhana.

We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved.

Along with faith comes the requirement for dogged persistence. At first meditation may bring you mild highs or some relief from suffering. But there may come a time - just as there does in the development of any skill - when there will be a plateau. You may be bored, discouraged, or even negative and cynical. This is when you will need not only faith, but persistence.

Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart.

Turn your melodrama into a mellow drama.

The World is perfect as it is, including my desire to change it.

We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.

As you look at many people's lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in it. They make their lives a living hell, but a familiar one.

We're all just walking each other home.

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.

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

So you work on yourself as a gift to other human beings. Then you use every situation you have with other human beings as a vehicle to work on yourself by seeing where you get stuck-where you push, where you grab, where you judge, where you do all the stuff.

We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine!

Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join others and push... You live, you help.

The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours.

And then the witness, if you go down into the witness, that has the spiritual being. Down there, in your soul, you'll get far more love than you ever got out there.

When you look back at your own life, you see ... the sufferings you went through, each time you would have avoided it if you possibly could. And yet, when you look at the depth of your character now, isn't a part of that a product of those experiences? Weren't those experiences part of what created the depth of your inner being?