What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.

What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.

What is the gospel according to Jesus? Simply this: that the love we all long for in our innermost heart is already present, beyond longing.

In a cookie factory, different cookies are baked in the shape of animals, cars, people, and airplanes. They all have different names and forms, but they are all made from the same dough, and they all taste the same.

It is better to do your own duty badly than to perfectly do an others; when you do your duty, you are naturally free from sin.

True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.

The physical body is acknowledged as dust, the personal drama as delusion. It is as if the world we perceive through our senses, the whole gorgeous and terrible pageant, were the breath-thin surface of a bubble, and everything else, inside and outside, is pure radiance. Both suffering and joy come then like a brief reflection, and death like a pin.