The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all.

You see that who you are isn't moving in time. Time is describing the incarnations, the packing changes.

When our hearts open, when we know that we are in fact the world, when we experience the pain of others in our own blood and muscle, we are feeling compassion.

Love flows. Love doesn't know boundaries. The mind creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart just keeps embracing and opening out.

When you are completely identified with your thinking mind you are totally separate from everything else in the universe.

My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got.

I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. To love their souls, I have to identify with my own soul.