As far as I'm concerned, the spiritual life is just like any other endeavor-you can succeed or fail. And when the goal is actual evolution beyond ego in an intersubjective context, success or failure is plain for all to see.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

What would it be like to communicate from a part of your own self that is absolutely free from self-consciousness, that is fearless, uncorrupted, and passionately interested in the truth?.

The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.

If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.

We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.

It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable