Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.

You may have expected that enlightenment would come ZAP! instantaneous and permanent.This is unlikely.After the first ah ha expereince, it can be thougth of as a thinning of a layer of clouds.

So your first job is to work on yourself. The greatest thing you can do for another human being is to get your own house in order and find your true spiritual heart.

In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.