Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free. 
Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey. 
If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul.It takes one to know one!
Don't take yourself so personally. 
You look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is ... 
To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible. 
Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart. 
As one individual changes, the system changes. 
When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush. 
We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved. 
When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us. 
At the moment when there's nothing more to lose, the Ego breaks open - and then we see who we are behind who we thought we were. 
Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions. 
If you think you're enlightened go spend a week with your family. 
The freer I get, the higher I go. The higher I go, the more I see. The more I see, the less I know. The less I know, the more I'm free. 
Meditation raises the question: Who are we really? 
Inspiration is God making contact with itself. 
Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair. 
The next message you need is always right where you are. 
I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer. 
Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it. 
Coming into the place of Soul-awareness is coming home. 
You see that who you are isn't moving in time. Time is describing the incarnations, the packing changes. 
Don't compare your path with anybody else's. Your path is unique to you. 
Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom. 
If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love. 
If you want to see how enlightened you are, go spend a week with your family. 
Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego. 
The soul is love, joy. Joy. Peace. Wisdom. 
I like to look at a tree and see that it's love. Don't you? 
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying. 
When you know how to listen everyone is the guru 
If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving. 
Give it all up and you can have it all. 
All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion. 
Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality. 
The World is perfect as it is, including my desire to change it 
I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth. 
Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse. 
In the depth of the soul is the atman, the oversoul. And that oversoul is really love and compassion, peace, joy, and wisdom. 
Faith is in the soul. Belief is thought. Faith is so rich. Faith gives me my spiritual self. 
Your problem is you're ... too busy holding onto your unworthiness. 
By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another. 
When you want to become free, your righteousness and anger are much less interesting than they used to be. 
You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into. 
I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love every thing in the universe. That's all I do all day. 
Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code. 
When we practice dying, we are learning to identify less with Ego and more with Soul 
We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves. 
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering. 
Compassion is the ability to see how it all is. 
you base your faith on experience, your faith is 
Words engage our minds, but in the silence we hear the Presence of God. 
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. 
As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is. 
I like walking in the pool. That isn't what makes me feel spiritual. But alive. 
There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid. 
Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That's what we're doing and we're using our incarnations as teaching devices. 
Look at the people you don't love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart. 
I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassionand where it isn't, that's where my work lies.
