Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.

Compassion and love, that's all.

Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

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

We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.

If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he is pure light, that he's pure love, that he's pure consciousness, that he's divine.