When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.

True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open.

Revelation is beyond doctrines and belief systems. It is beyond everything imaginable. It is beyond because it is so close. Revelation is more direct than every word, for it arises out of the truth of who you are. This truth is all you have ever longed for, all you have ever needed.

Love has nothing to do with another person. Love is Truth. Love is Beauty. Love is Self. To know yourself, to surrender to the truth of yourself, is to surrender to love.

I'm a student of history and know that civilizations get lost - they are born and die - and so I recognize the tender mortality of our civilization. I'm not saying I'm separate from the despair of that, but I'm not controlled by the despair of that.

Be open. And then the truth follows.

Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace.