A person desperately searching for love," Merlin said, "reminds me of a fish desperately searching for water.

Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness.

Our Higher Self is the most intimate thing we could possibly know; eternity is the most comfortable home we could possibly fine.

The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

To live without love, compassion, or any other spiritual value creates a state of such severe imbalance that every cell yearns to correct it. Ultimately, that is what lies behind the onset of disease; the body is sending a message that something lacking in the present—an imbalance existing somewhere—has given rise to highly visible, unarguable, physical symptoms.

Love is already inside us as our true being; we do not have to make it appear.

Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.