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.

I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love everything in the universe. That's all I do all day.

Drop your identification with the illusion of separateness.

I think the game is to bear the unbearable with a giggle. With your heart breaking. And then do what you do.

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

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.

The fun is having friends who help each other get free.