There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events.

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing.

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

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.

The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them.