“When the eternal and the human meet, that’s where love is born — not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.”

If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.

The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened. Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach,

Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine.

Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.

Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion.

You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.

You must choose between your attachments and happiness.

You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.

Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.

What gets taken away are all the exterior means we thought we wanted love to come to us. You have the choice to notice the perfect set up to see love is exactly what you are.

Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt anymore, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t rip your heart out….In great grief, there’s an incredible love in it. In love there’s a tinge of bitter. In true love.

The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.

When a group of people come together as a response to that kind of inward call, it creates a very powerful environment, where truth is held in the highest esteem and the reality of our being responds to that deepest intention.

You’re willing to realize that maybe everything you’ve ever thought about yourself really isn’t true.

The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. When you start to see the light that you really are, the light waking up in you, the radiance, you realize it has no intention to change you.

Neither one of these thoughts hold any intrinsic reality. They are an overlay. When someone says, ‘I love you,’ he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, ‘I hate you,’ she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.

The West has not lived through totalitarianism, with a single ideology for 70 years.We are escaping from the burden of the past, and onlyafter we have done that will we be ready to integrate with Europeand Europe needs Russia.

A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.

You don’t need to know what you’re escaping from to become a fugitive.

When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder

I’m one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there’s no escaping it.

No escaping when I start, once I’m in I own your heart

He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.

Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!