The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different.

When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.

Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.

Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego.

We reap in age what we have sown, in our values, all along the way.

You must come to see every human being Including yourself, As an incarnation In a body or personality, going through a certain Life experience which is functional.

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.

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.

I love everybody and they, in turn, love everybody, and that's spreading love heart to heart to heart. That's my approach to my work.

When you know how to listen everyone is the guru

If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.

Suffering brings me so close to God.

The soul is not part of the incarnation. It comes into the incarnation. And the soul is not afraid of death because it has done it so many times.

The suffering is in the mind. The mind. In the mind. Witness it. From your spiritual heart.

You have all the time in the world, but don't waste a moment.

If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know one!

The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all.

This society is not 'user-friendly' for older people.

I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love.

It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am.

Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.

When you want to become free, your righteousness and anger are much less interesting than they used to be.