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We see not just that which is uninjured, but that within us which is uninjurable.

Our work is to keep our hearts open in hell.

As Nisargadatta said, 'The mind creates the abyss and the heart crosses it." Often

remember that what will die in a year's time is not our essential being but our ability to interact physically with those we love and cherish. You

I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)

Love is not what we become but who we already are

[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)

Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

As we begin to see where we have been absent from life, increasing possibilities audition for our approval.

It is trust in our vast 'don't know' that allows room for the truth, that allows the next intuition to float to the surface.

Once we can see the major shifts from liking to disliking, from opened to close, we will be able to acknowledge them before they gain momentum.

Death is perfectly safe. (55)

When your fear touches someone's pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone's pain, it become compassion.

We've all been should upon enough.

The basis of the practice is to directly participate in each moment as it occurs with as much awareness and understanding as possible.

Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind.

When we turn to our innate wisdom for the harmony of mind and gut, we heal the entrance to the heart as it seeks to beat in rhythm with the world.

It doesn't matter how long you forget, only how soon you remember!

Healing is bringing mercy and Awareness into that which we have held in judgment and fear.

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

To heal is to touch with love that which was previously touched by fear.

Healing comes when we meet our wounded places with compassion.

Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.

If you can find the God inside yourself, you can find the God inside everybody.

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

When we see all women as the divine mother and all men as the divine father, everyone you meet is sacred.

The mind is a useful tool but not a very good friend.

Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness.

How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

Death is just a change in lifestyles.

What is it like after you die? Just like it was before you were born.

If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.

[T]hose who insist they've got their 'shit together' are usually standing in it at the time. (16)

When the heart acknowledges how much pain there is in the mind, it turns like a mother toward a frightened child.

Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself

[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)

Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind.

The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.

Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. There is nothing to do but be.

Pity arises from meeting pain with fear. Compassion comes when you meet it with love.

Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)

The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.

There is nothing to do but be.

Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled beyond our grasp.

Aging teaches us to follow our life force inward. It is an object lesson in how awareness is gradually drawn towards the center ...

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make who would you call and what would you say?
And why are you waiting?

Always try to see yourself through God's eyes.

Relate to the fear, not just from it. (50)

God is not someone or something separate but is the suchness in each moment, the underlying reality.

Whatever prepares you for death enhances life.