You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.

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.

When you want to become free, your righteousness and anger are much less interesting than they used to be.

One cultivates spaciousness or awareness which allows you to acknowledge the emotions and see them as part of the human condition. Emotions are like subtle thought forms and they all arise in response to something outside yourself. They are all reactions. You cultivate a quietness in yourself that watches these emotions rising and falling and passing away.

I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!

Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.

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.