You've been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody, which is really somebody. For when you become nobody there is no tension, no pretense, no one trying to be anyone or anything. The natural state of the mind shines through unobstructed - and the natural state of the mind is pure love.

We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.

I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!

It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily.

If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.

A being whose awareness is totally free, who does not cling to anything, is liberated.

Nature is really important because it's a manifestation of love that hasn't been run through human minds.

There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.

The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.

By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.

Faith is in the soul. Belief is thought. Faith is so rich. Faith gives me my spiritual self.

Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body.

Until we know that we can bear the unbearable, we're always running scared.

You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

When your mind is quiet, you enter into the flow of love, and you just flow from one moment to the next as naturally as breathing. Whatever arises, I embrace it with love in the moment. This is my practice of polishing the mirror to reflect love. In this moment there is just awareness and love. If someone asks me how to get into their heart, I give them this practice: I Am Loving Awareness.

True compassion arises out of the plane of consciousness where I AM you.

What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.

If you want to see how enlightened you are, go spend a week with your family.

I have written and spoken my thoughts over many years. Now I'm on new ground and spirit. I want to bring these together. Things like karma yoga, bhakti yoga, conscious dying, conscious aging. Consciousness.

The soul is not ruled by time and space. The soul is infinite. It blends with the One in infinity.

Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

Aging has its own beauty. It is a beautiful stage for doing inner work. You have a chance to not be so dependent on social approval. You can be a little more eccentric. You can be more alone. And you can examine loneliness and boredom instead of being afraid of them. There is such an art and a possibility of aging.