Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.

Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.

For what you do to others, you do to yourself.

The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space.

Surrender becomes so much easier when you realize the fleeting nature of all experiences and that the world cannot give you anything of lasting value. You then continue to meet people, to be involved in experience and activities, but without the wants and fears of the egoic self. That is to say, you no longer demand that a situation, person, place, or event should satisfy you or make you happy. It's passing and imperfect nature is allowed to be.

Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind

If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.