External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.

The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage that our child died. The gratitude is what heals the despair.

The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them.

It is possible that in the 21st Century the Earth will not be inhabited by humans. One of the great mystics of India, a very simple man up in the mountains, somebody once asked him about the future. He said there will come a time when you'll walk five miles and you may see a light and you'll be so happy to know another being exists.

There is only one of us. One consciousness manifesting into different forms.

Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW...so you stop asking.

Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.