I am embarrassed to admit what drew me to psychology. I didn't want to go to medical school. I was getting good grades in psychology and I was charismatic and people in the psychology department liked me. It was as low a level as that.

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.

Words engage our minds, but in the silence we hear the Presence of God.

Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.

The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours.

We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved.

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