I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.

In communications empathy knowing respect spirituality tolerance understanding. Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

If you want oneness in society, you have to teach people to go inside instead of going outside, because if they want peace, they need to find it within.

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.

The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening.

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.

When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.