When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.
Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
Let's just chant and be good people, alright?
The only real protection will come from doing a spiritual practice over a prolonged period of time. Because it retrains us to see the world and ourselves in a different way.
You cannot think your way out of a box made of thought.
Real compassion is not emotional. Real compassion is based on the experience that all beings, which might appear separate, are actually a part of my own body, and I am a part of the body of the universe. We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.