The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.

Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.

What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.

You are joy, wisdom, peace, compassion, and love

This is the pathless path. Where the journey leads is to the deepest truth in you. It is really just returning to where you were initially before you got lost.

Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours.