When you want to become free, your righteousness and anger are much less interesting than they used to be.

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to fear, to all of it. And as long as there is a place where you’re vulnerable, the universe will find a way to confront you with it.

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

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

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.

Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.