The greatest and the best Christians when they are physically weak are more prone to an attack of spiritual depression than at any other time and there are great illustrations of this in the Scriptures.

A single prayer of yours, a few words whispered on your knees, in humble submission to the God of our fathers, and a firm belief that what you ask will in fact be done… and...

You need to experience fear in order to be capable of Universal love. If you can’t acknowledge fear, you can’t change it.

And now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understand and it had beaten them. They knew that the team and the wagon were worth much more....

Love one another.” If we took those simple words to heart, we’d already be the Buddhas Jesus wanted us to be.

We were the church. As the New Testament instructed. When it was time for Sunday morning meeting, we convened in private homes. To raise a structure and call it a church was the worldly way....

Divine love is limitless and the source of miracles.

The earth had two childrenA son named Adamand a daughter

believe” it in the abstract; like any mythos, it depended upon the rituals associated with the cult of a particular holy place to make what it signified a reality in the lives of participants.The same...

I believe the experiences reported in this book are reproducible by anyone who wishes to try. I went to Africa. You can go to Africa. You may have trouble arranging the time or the money,...

No matter how you arrive at the awareness and belief that you’ve lived before and will live again, the most lasting healing benefit will be the change in your attitude. You are creating your future...

Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me...

Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which...

Have confidence. Like the first spark of morning light against the entire night sky recognize the Power and Brilliance within you.

Many beginners also at times possess great spiritual avarice. They hardly ever seem content with the spirit God gives them. They become unhappy and peevish because they don’t find the consolation they want in spiritual...

Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my...

Knock, And He’ll open the doorVanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sunFall, And He’ll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He’ll turn you into everything.

Sometimes it happens that you become one, in some rare moment. Watch the ocean, the tremendous wildness of it–and suddenly you forget your split, your schizophrenia; you relax. Or, moving in the Himalayas, seeing the...

What I’m asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

Many people ask how to heal an aching heart. I ask in return how does one release the attachment to the aching?

When we are in touch with our creativity, through passion and excitement, we always put ourselves in the most expansive state of consciousness. Fear slows down our development, while love supports a rapid growth.

That which is worth telling is not worth having.

Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.

People’s love for us may change, depending on what we do or don’t do to please them. But God’s does not—it’s everlasting.

The Art of Living is to be yourself. It is to be true to yourself. The Art of Living is learning to live with love, awareness and truth. Meditation is the way to learn The...

Lao Tzu’s first paragraph in the book “Tao Te Ching” is that the Tao that can be told is not the absolute Tao.Lao Tzu has his own logic, the logic of paradoxes, the logic of...

The human heart operates from two premises: “I Am Responsible” and “Only Love Works.

yes” to life. Our heart is the door to surrender to life.

Ayahuasca can heal, but it an also be used to kill,’ Carlos continues to translate for Juan… The key is remaining humble, being a servant of ayahuasca, not a master. ‘Give yourself to the benefit...

In the peaceful moments of night,Whenever i remember you..!At that moment,Me beg to Allah AlmightyFor your eternal happiness..!I pray to Him,All griefs, all tears and all sorrows,In your fate,Shift to mine..!And,All possible joys of mine,Shift...

Simple answers to the most difficult questions:1. Why do humans find it difficult to express themselves?To relate to the movies and books, later.2. Why do humans make everything look so big, beautiful & complicated?Ego feels...

The Buddha’s principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let go. The only way to fully understand the bodhichitta teachings, the only way...

…there is found a third level of religious experience, even if it is seldom found in a pure form. I will call it the cosmic religious sense. This is hard to make clear to those...

Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance

Concerning the popularity of vampire books:I don’t get it. I think people should read about bloody, heart-singing, mind-searing spirituality. Live your heart’s song, not its drippings.

For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannon build a sound basis of compassion. So...

I don’t want your love. I want the same love you want. I don’t want your love. I want what you want & we can find It together & share our deepening experience of It….I...

Open the doors of your heart and they will come…And for every cruel arrow,Sweet caresses of delirium alsoTo nourish your soul.

They’re hypnotists. They’re incredibly expert psychologists. Andthey’re just as keen on getting control of the whole world as, forinstance, the Bolshevists are. They believe in their black scienceas enthusiastically as the Bolshevists believe in communism–muchmore...

Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you’ll come to remember your spirit. When you’re able to transcend an aversion to silence, you’ll also transcend many other miseries....

Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a castle surrounded by white cliffs tall trees and the sea. I greeted most of mine in the...

I had another reason for seeking Him, for trying to espy His face, a professional one. God and literature are conflated in my mind. Why this is, I’m not sure. Perhaps because great books seem...

In our modern world, we look unkindly on mistakes and imperfection. But this is far from the samurai ideal. Mistakes are part of the learning process and if you haven’t made them then you are,...

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole...

That’s a spiritual lifestyle, being willing to admit that you don’t know everything and that you were wrong about some things. It’s about making a list of all the people you’ve harmed, either emotionally or...

It is only when you touch the higher that you realize how low we may be among the possibilities of creation.

When you look in the mirror, remember that who you see looking back at you is a piece of your highest self, the Divine.

Real success always contains an unseen essential of deep spirituality.

Spirituality is very much about putting yourself in proper order.

No one can set your level of worthiness except you.