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.

You look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is.

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

The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.

Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

A Oneness of all. An evolution in consciousness of us all that isn't about the egos.

There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.