You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down.

If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

Success isn't about acquiring things, it's about discovering your life purpose and following the call

It was like time would stop, and the dancer would sort of step through some kind of portal and he wasn't doing anything different than he had ever done, 1,000 nights before, but everything would align. And all of a sudden, he would no longer appear to be merely human. He would be lit from within, and lit from below and all lit up on fire with divinity. And when this happened, back then, people knew it for what it was, you know, they called it by it's name. They would put their hands together and they would start to chant, "Allah, Allah, Allah, God God, God." That's God, you know.