It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!
You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.
My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.
If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know one!
I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.
What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.