The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there-so there the mountain stays.

What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.

Finally you come to a point where you almost know it all. You are very wise. You are very pure... except for the fact that you may well have gotten caught in the last trap... the desire to know it all and still be you, "the knower." This is an impossibility. For all of the finite knowledge does not add up to the infinite. In order to take the final step, the knower must go. That is, you can only BE it all, but you can't know it all. The goal is non-dualistic - as long as there is a "knower" and "known" you are in dualism.

I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. To love their souls, I have to identify with my own soul.

Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.

Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love-for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish, birds, and trees. Compassion is bringing our deepest truth into our actions, no matter how much the world seems to resist, because that is ultimately what we have to give this world and one another.

By going into third world countries and serving, by actually feeding and helping people, I've been led to focus a little more on how people here try to be happy by ignoring other people who are unhappy.