Hold up your hands before your eyes. You are looking at the hands of God.

Hold up your hands before your eyes. You are looking at the hands of God.

...the goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot it; kill it. Silence the incessant planning, organizing, running, manipulating, possessing, and processing"... "because these activities preclude awareness of the Divine.

Everyone carries with them at least one piece to someone else's puzzle.

God puts you where God needs you. You are where you are supposed to be. The job you are doing may not be any easier on account of this, indeed it may be harder, even more urgent, but now you are centered, focused, clear. So this is where I am supposed to be. I always thought I was supposed to be somewhere else, doing something else, being someone else. But I realize now that I was mistaken. This does not mean that I can't or will not be doing something else. Just right now, I am where God wants me.

Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security.

The only thing truly within our power, may be whether or not we will behave in each moment with arrogance or reverence.