You are joy, wisdom, peace, compassion, and love.

The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization.

Compassion and love, that's all.

I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.

One cultivates spaciousness or awareness which allows you to acknowledge the emotions and see them as part of the human condition. Emotions are like subtle thought forms and they all arise in response to something outside yourself. They are all reactions. You cultivate a quietness in yourself that watches these emotions rising and falling and passing away.

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love.

When you live in love You see love everywhere you look. You are literally in love with everyone you look at.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.

We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you're experiencing.

The greatest thing you can do for another being is to provide the unconditional love that comes from making contact with that place in them that is beyond conditions, which is just pure consciousness, pure essence. That is, once we acknowledge each other as existing, just being here, just being, then each of us is free to change optimally. If I can just love you because here we are, then you are free to grow as you need to grow.

My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.

Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it's the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations.

The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them.

I think that people should give gifts by really recognizing the spiritual worth of the person and their (the givers') own worth. You usually give a present that the other person needs or wants, and I think it just emphasizes wants and needs.

Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.

You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.

Our culture's zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death.

The fun is having friends who help each other get free.