The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them.

We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents.

I like walking in the pool. That isn't what makes me feel spiritual. But alive.

You are joy, wisdom, peace, compassion, and love

The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different.

A Tibetan Lama said to me, "The best place to stand, Ram Dass, is halfway between hope and hopelessness." So I can write a scenario for the 21st century in either direction. One is that it all goes to hell and that it's truly the dark age.