When we start to talk about gurus, we're talking about beings who actually know what this is all about. They know who we were, where we came from, and where we're going. They are not imprisoned in a selfish or self-centered view of the universe.

If I had been born in Germany with family of Nazis and if I had been raised with those beliefs, there was very little chance that I wouldn't be exactly like all those guards and all those people who tortured everybody.

Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.

Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?

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.

All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That's the way we go through our lives. Everybody.

We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.