“The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.”

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’s very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

If you observe well, your own heart will answer.

Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it-just don’t get lost in it.

When the heart is open, it’s easier for the mind to be turned toward God.

Relationships only work in a spiritual sense when you and I really see that we are one.

It’s only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

When your center is firm, when your faith is strong and unwavering, then it will not matter what company you keep.

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

We’re all just walking each other home.

A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I’ll tell you exactly where I’m going.

Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.

I’ve always loved life, irrespective of all the ups and downs that have filled my journey.

Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.

Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

But even if I’m left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.

I know the way isn’t clear hold steady anyway.