Along with faith comes the requirement for dogged persistence. At first meditation may bring you mild highs or some relief from suffering. But there may come a time - just as there does in the development of any skill - when there will be a plateau. You may be bored, discouraged, or even negative and cynical. This is when you will need not only faith, but persistence.

Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.

When you see the beloved all around you, everyone is family and everywhere is love.

I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am.

The ego is frightened by death, because ego is part of the incarnation and ends with it. That is why we learn to identify with our soul, as the soul continues after death. For the soul, death is just another moment.

When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.

Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it's the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations.