When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.

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

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart.

All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.

It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

By going into third world countries and serving, by actually feeding and helping people, I've been led to focus a little more on how people here try to be happy by ignoring other people who are unhappy.