“Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person’s reality is like for them.”

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.

Bhakti yoga isn’t something you join, it’s love. It means falling in love.

Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It’s an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it’s a way of being present in the moment.

I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.

All known living bodies are sharply divided into two special kingdoms, based upon the essential differences which distinguish animals from plants, and in spite of what has been said, I am convinced that these two kingdoms do not really merge into one another at any point.

Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.

All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.

To find that Bahá’í young people, each and all, are known throughout the world for their intellectual attainmen

Put your trust in Allah and not in anyone other than Him, because it is known that He alone is the Helper.

When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.

An enlightened ruler doesnot worry about people not knowing him; he worriesabout not knowing people.