“Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.”

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.

Who in all his works sees God, in truth he goes to God.

The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.

By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.

Once you have drunk from the water of unconditional love, no other well can satisfy your thirst. The pangs of separation may become so intense that seeking the affection of the Beloved becomes an obsession.

The next message you need is always right where you are.

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

I’m not interested in being a lover. I’m interested in only being love.

We’re being trained through our incarnations–trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.

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.

It is nice when people recognize me and approach me in the street. Anyone who says they don’t like that is lying.

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

The secret of perfect health lies in keeping the mind always cheerful – never worried, never hurried, never borne down by any fear, thought or anxiety.

Real happiness lies within you.

Whoever told you its not possible was lying! Keep going!

There is only one sin. and that is theft. When you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.

I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.