When the heart acknowledges how much pain there is in the mind, it turns like a mother toward a frightened child.

It is not for the concept, but for the experience, that we use the term the Beloved. The experience of this enormity we falteringly label divine is unconditioned love. Absolute openness, unbounded mercy and compassion. We use this concept, not to name the unnameable vastness of being-- our greatest joy-- but to acknowledge and claim as our birthright the wonders and healings within.

In all serious disease states we find a concomitant low oxygen state... Low oxygen in the body tissues is a sure indicator for disease...Hypoxia, or lack of oxygen in the tissues, is the fundamental cause for all degenerative disease. Oxygen is the source of life to all cells.

Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind.

The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.

I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)

Meditation isn't to disappear into the light. Meditation is to see all of what we are.