You identify with your self. You have a personal history. You have commitments. There are things that you want to experience and other things that you want to avoid.

I respect self-giving and I've tried to lead my life with that as the ideal. But real self-giving is when we take our being, that which is most precious to us, and we throw it into eternity with a total sense of offering.

Life is perfect, it glows.

The deeper inner teachings are presented to very few because few would understand them. The exoteric teachings are presented to many.

There is no end and there is no beginning. There is only eternity. Eternity can be warm. eternity can be cold and ruthless.

People who work to bring about perfection see work as an extension of themselves. The point is to do a good job. That will empower you. To do a poor job will make you weaker.

What the teacher does is sweep all of the logic, order and reason onto one side and make that side very strong.