“Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.”

Most of us are so caught in righteousness, we’re afraid of truth.

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

Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it’s all open and it’s all love.

As one individual changes, the system changes.

We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

Whose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love.

A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.

Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?

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.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.

If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.

We’re here to awaken from the illusion of separateness

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

As soon as you give it all up you can have it all

You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine.