Remember, Be Here Now.

So many times each day we support each other informally without ever becoming 'helper' or 'helped.' Perhaps we're finding an article of clothing for a partner, cutting bread for one of the children, collecting the mail for the person at the next desk, holding the coat for someone at a restaurant.

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

Pain is the mind. It's the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind.

The pain of the world will sear and break our hearts because we can no longer keep them closed. We've seen too much now. To some degree or other, we have surrendered into service and are willing to pay the price of compassion. But with it comes the joy of a single, caring act. With it comes the honor of participating in a generous process in which one rises each day and does what one can. With it comes the simple, singular grace of being an instrument of Love, in whatever form, to whatever end.

When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.

Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.