Nothing that is of real value can be lost, only the false dissolves.

Loss is very painful, because any kind of loss leaves a hole in the fabric of one's existence.

For a relationship to deepen, at some point the spiritual dimension needs to come in. You don't even need to be fully awakened for this to happen, but if it does happen it certainly means you are awakening.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

Allow your dog to take you for a walk every day. It's good for the body and it's good for the soul.

Through death you find yourself, because you no longer identify with form. You realize you are not the form with which you had identified ­ neither the physical nor the psychological form of "me". That form goes. It dissolves and who you are beyond form emerges through the opening where that form was. One could almost say that every form of life obscures God.

This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some of it, however, is also happening within the existing churches and religious institutions wherever the members of those congregations do not identify with rigid and exclusive belief systems whose unconscious purpose is to foster a sense of separation on which the egoic mind structures depend for their survival.