When you recognize the sacredness, the beauty, the incredible stillness and dignity in which a flower or a tree exists, you add something to the flower or the tree. Through your recognition, your awareness, nature too comes to know itself. It comes to know its own beauty and sacredness through you.

Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche

It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child.

Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.

The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.