Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the suffering, pity is a controlled set of thoughts designed to assure separateness. Compassion is the spontaneous response of love; pity, the involuntary reflex of fear.

I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.

There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.

Give it all up and you can have it all.

Faith, consciousness, and awareness all exist beyond the thinking mind.

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.

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.