The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.

A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

The cosmic humor is that if you desire to move mountains and you continue to purify yourself, ultimately you will arrive at the place where you are able to move mountains. But in order to arrive at this position of power you will have had to give up being he-who-wanted-to-move-mountains so that you can be he-who-put-the-mountain-there-in-the-first-place. 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.

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

We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to taste innocence again. Looking at sensations freshly without the conceptual overly was very profound.