Spiritual practice is allowing the temple (your body) to be full of light and to live life as a total celebration.

Smartass Disciple: Master, please show me the way to the enlightenment.Master of Stupidity: Walk with me! [but I won’t let you try to surpass me].

Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man’s awareness of it.

Hard work does not go unnoticed,and someday the rewards will follow

Poetic justice, with her lifted scale,Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,And solid pudding against empty praise. Here she beholds the chaos dark and deep,Where nameless somethings in their causes sleep,Till genial Jacob,...

What is it that has called you so suddenly out of nothingness to enjoy for a brief while a spectacle which remains quite indifferent to you? The conditions for your existence are almost as old...

Realization is the direct seeing that this entity you have believed yourself to be has its roots in something infinitely vast and that this entity is not separate from that vastness, the source, the absolute.

If the existence of Nuclear weapons has taught us anything it would simply be that just because we possess powerful technologies, it does not necessarily mean that we should use them. Unfortunately, we are currently...

A compulsive external search only leads us to the interpretation of another’s path. True identity and sustained harmony can only be achieved by turning inward, and it is there that you will find every answer...

The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves.

Earth is not a private club; it is a universal club. Being born allows you to receive a membership card; you don’t have to do anything else for it. And it is the most beautiful...

Enlightenment is not about cocooning one’s self, but about integrating more fully with both your self and life.

Wenn Gott in seiner Rechten alle Wahrheit und in seiner Linken den einzigen immer regen Trieb nach Wahrheit, obschon mit dem Zusatze, mich immer und ewig zu irren, verschlossen hielte und spräche zu mir: wähle!...

Never once, did Christ ever utter, “I came here to start a religion”Early Christians did not worship items, relics, wars, or governments.

You can lead and motivate people without a certificate or title, what you need to do is to tell people a compelling secret that was only known to you.

suffering breaks us until there’s nothing left but gentleness

You can believe what you’ve been told. You can imagine in vivid detail the things explained to you. You may even feel emotions assumed to accompany the related experience. But you absolutely cannot know something...

I was tired in the evening yesterday. I felt drained by the last days outer conflicts. I felt separated from life. Suddenly I heard the wind blowing through the trees outside my open window, whispering...

We come to the end of suffering, through suffering.

Once there is realization of self challenge, ego versus soul, competition with others becomes futile.

Everything you experience is a blessing and pushes you toward realizing your true self.

Where ego comes in, loving kindness departs. So wherever there is ego, there is very little space for true bliss and true happiness because true bliss and true happiness isn’t exclusive to the attachments the...

The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to...

There is no illuminating light as powerful as that a person has got inside to guide him or her through the darkness encircling outside.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

All paths are valid, but in the end you will find that the realization of the ultimate truth is a pathless path.

Few ever found enlightenment in haste, and nobody will ever discover it in gibberish

Never allow dogmatic interpretations of Karma to keep you from defending what is right or just. You must accept the reality that on occasion, you may very well be the proper instrument of this cosmic...

To Do Today, 1/17/081. Sit and think2. Reach enlightenment3. Feed the cats

Judge not, lest ye miss out on all the fun.

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough...

I have said: “Blow out the lamp! Day is here!” And you keep saying: “Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

You can’t expect anyone to trust revelation if he hasn’t experienced it himself. Those who haven’t only know reason. And since revelation is a thing apart, and cannot be accounted for reasonably, they never will...

[Josiah P. Mendum memorial at Paine Hall][He turned] the strait-laced Boston of sixty years ago [into] the enlightened Hub of today, . . . to ‘destroy bigotry and uproot the evils of superstition.

I’m sorry. This is diary, not enlightenment.

…after much practice and struggle, you come to feel for yourself that enlightenment is not only possible, but in process.

We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other.

In the midst of darkness, he alone sees the dawn; in the midst of the soundless, he alone hears harmony.

There were so many beliefs which we had about the world, which then influenced everything, everything, about how we saw the world and interacted in the world and were with others. Everything. It was profound...

A person who wants to know everything eventually comes to a stage where his/her curiosity of knowing everything comes to an end and that is the stage of Enlightenment.

In order to know the Truth, you have to be out of your mind.

The purpose of life is the lesson.

Light and Dark: each was unaware that the other existed.

Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things ‘as they are,’ or in the most universally comprehensible way, and not as projections of our own emotions. Thunder...

When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine’s Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwah, I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was,...

Anything that appears and disappears cannot actually be you because it is being observed by you. By removing the attention from these things and noticing what remains, you are left only with what is permanent...

Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen.

Removing toxicity from your life is essential to maintaining a peaceful state of mind and an overall quality of health. This purging can and should include any detrimental habits, including negative, controlling, and abusive people....

Sandals. The Sufi teacher Ghulam-Shah was asked what pattern he used in formulating his courses for disciples. He said: ‘Barefoot until you can get sandals, sandals until you can manage boots.

To the ego, love is poison.