The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to fear, to all of it. And as long as there is a place where you’re vulnerable, the universe will find a way to confront you with it.

Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.

When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.

If you rest in the silence inside, all those you meet will have their spiritual hearts resuscitated.

There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events.

Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

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.