“We all inhabit our lives, in different ways to some degree. We see ourselves a certain way, and based on how we see ourselves, that’s how we see the world.”

It’s inexplicable why somebody can lose a leg and it doesn’t effect them at all emotionally; and another person can lose a foot and be destroyed for the rest of their lives.

Don’t wait for a Guru. Your life is your Guru.

Surrender happens by Grace. All we’re doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.

Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.

Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.

Even if somebody tells us something, the hit, the light goes on inside of us, not out there. We learn and understand everything within ourselves.

I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that’s what I’m doing.

Let’s just chant and be good people, alright?

We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.

Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.

To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.

Compassion is a college education. It’s a doctorate.

The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that’s very disturbing – we get happy.

One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.

The only real protection will come from doing a spiritual practice over a prolonged period of time. Because it retrains us to see the world and ourselves in a different way.

It’s within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.

How you look at it is pretty much how you’ll see it.

When she shines, she shines bright. Radiant I suppose. Kind for kindness, she lights up to be seen.

Today, let’s be determined to see blessings in the midst of things that seem like burdens.

I need someone who sees the fire in my eyes and wants to play with it.

It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles.

I saw beautiful things when I met you.

Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities — always see them, for they’re always there.