Once you have gathered enough silence,silence gathers you.
Let that charged spacespark inside you and flash.
Regardless of belief or faith,everyone is agnostic
until gnosis.
When in doubt, favor compassionover certainty or tradition.
What the heart recognizesas liberation,
the ego sees
as theft.
Don't resent the work.It gives you the strength to stand
whole and silent
before the Mystery.
To really meet the mystery,we must be uncertain.
Each day, each momentis a step into the unknown.
How can we feel anything
but amazement?
Outwardly, determined effort is necessary.But within, nothing is needed
except to yield.
To find its perfectionthe soul must reveal
its imperfections.
Stop struggling for perfection,and recognize the perfection
you already are.
You live in the most sacred placein the universe:
right here,
right now.
The real youis much too big to be your own.
Through youthe world learns
to recognize itself
- as heaven.
The parched know --real thirst
draws rainwater
from an empty sky.
Even your sufferingis not your suffering.
It all belongs to the one
who lives through you.
Each kind actand simple insight
is a victory.
