Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.

Healing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself.

If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.

Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.

All we have to do is to receive what we are given...We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.

Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.