The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening.

Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.

Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

There are no accidents.

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

As I've gone into soul and soul-land, and I connect with my soul and my ego, and my life is colored by my soul - people can identify from their ego, which is who they thought they are. The soul, which is who they really are, if they choose that transfer to the soul, then you live in an ocean of love.

Those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!

The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage that our child died. The gratitude is what heals the despair.

Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.

Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you’ll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one. When many people have this heart connection, then we will know that we are all one, we human beings all over the planet. We will be one. One love. And don’t leave out the animals, and trees, and clouds, and galaxies-it’s all one. It’s one energy.

Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.

Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That's what we're doing and we're using our incarnations as teaching devices.

Look at the people you don't love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart.

I think the game is to bear the unbearable with a giggle. With your heart breaking. And then do what you do.

Old age spiritualizes people naturally

Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.

Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.