When humans come together with a true spirit of dealing with the mystery collaboratively, it's incredibly beautiful.

After one arrives at the summit, after going through the total transformation of being...there is yet one more step to the completion of that journey: the return to the valley below, to the everyday world. Who it is that returns is not who began the climb in the first place. The being that comes back is quietness itself, is compassion and wisdom, is the truth of the ages. Whatever humble or elevated position that being holds within the community, he or she becomes a light for others on the way a statement of the freedom that comes from having touched the top of the mountain.

I think the game is to bear the unbearable with a giggle. With your heart breaking. And then do what you do.

You're afraid, you will just keep making the fear. If you want to change it, you change from your soul.

From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.

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

The witness is always in the here and now and it lives in each instant of living. To be in the witness is to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without clinging, without opinions.