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We are so numb we don’t even know what a direct experience is. We have an experience, then we think about it and we think the thinking about it is the experience.

We’ve all been should upon enough.

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

Meditation isn’t to disappear into the light. Meditation is to see all of what we are.

There is a delicate balance that we need to honor as we try to find meaning in any event or state of mind: Many people confuse finding meaning with finding a reason, putting our finger on something or someone for blame.

If you want the other person more than anything else in the world, you’re in major trouble and the relationship is a wobbly pivot. It’s different if the thing you want most in the world is truth, and your partner is the person you want most in the world.

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

Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what this moment does not. When there is wanting in the mind, that moment feels incomplete. Wanting is seeing elsewhere. Completeness is being right here.

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

Hell is not fire and brimstone, not a place where you are punished for lying or cheating or stealing. Hell is wanting to be something and somewhere different from where you are.

Our work is to keep our hearts open in hell.

Love is not what we become but who we already are.

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

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.

Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can’t second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away, it’s often wiser to pray that you learn as much from it as you possibly can.

Your distance from your partner is the distance from your heart. The things that make relationships difficult are some of the most precious aspects to us.

Whatever prepares you for death enhances life.

Oxygen plays a pivotal role in the proper functioning of the immune system. We can look at oxygen deficiency as the single greatest cause of all diseases.

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

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

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

There is nothing to do but be.

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

Forgiveness is mental floss! Build the capacity to forgive slowly – start with little unkind acts, otherwise you’ll sabotage yourself. When we forgive, we forgive the actor, not the action.

You can call it wisdom, or sanity, or health, or enlightenment. I use the word God as a short-cut. I am comfortable with the word God because I don’t have the foggiest idea of what it means.

Death is just a change in lifestyles.

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

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

People ask what must they become to be loving. The answer is ‘nothing.’ It is a process of letting go of what you thought you had become and allowing your true nature to float to the surface naturally.

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.

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.

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

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

Healing comes when we meet our wounded places with compassion.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Buddha nature, is like the sun which is always shining, always present, though often obscured. We are blocked from our natural light by the clouds of thought and longing and fear; the overcast of the conditioned mind; the hurricane of I am.

Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It’s an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent.

Always try to see yourself through God’s eyes.

Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little.

The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses over it. Love is the bridge.

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

Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing around it, without eliminating the pure witness of being. It is an active receptivity to life.

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

To become Kuan Yin is to recognize the extreme toil and commitment that brings fruition. Her accomplishment not bestowed on her by some celestial prize committee, Zeus, or the Holy Ghost, but by the hard-earned forgoing of all earthly pleasure, to complete what Buddha called “the work to be done.

Becoming Kuan Yin: The Evolution of Compassion Quotes

In almost every spiritual prototype we have to go through hell on our way to pure awareness, indistinguishable from unconditional love, the Pure Land of our illuminated nature. For some, that process of awakening and “enlightening” is the experience the Taoists call “self ablaze.

Becoming Kuan Yin: The Evolution of Compassion Quotes

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