When we follow our joy and excitement, being focused on what we love and appreciate, the change always unfolds with a great ease. Whenever we experience any tension in our transformations, it only indicates our...

Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.

To love those who love us and are good to us is easy. To love those who are indifferent to us is workable, but to love those who have harmed us, intentionally or not, is...

The danger is not that the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but that, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

I don’t know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas Tree Agnostic.

Healing is the way of the heart. This book is an invitation to open our heart. Healing is a love affair with life.Healing is pure love. Love is what creates healing. Spiritual healing is to...

Fear and hate create separation, love and joy creates belongingness and wholeness.

Meditation expands our inner being. The inner being is like a small, individual river flowering towards the Ocean. In meditation, I feel how my inner being expands into an inner ocean, which is part of...

Do not believe in a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe in a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because...

But no matter how much evil I see, I think it’s important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite.

It is in the balancing of your spirituality with your humanity that you will find immeasurable happiness, success, good health, and love.

Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.

I considered not getting up, but recognized the pain of staying down was worse than the pain of attempting to stand.

Mournier defined his own position as one of ‘tragic optimism–‘ a Christian attitude of absolute engagement in the struggles of history, despite the fact that the Absolute cannot be contained in history.

To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is almost a palpable movement. To enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary...

Since dugpas wished to get you out of here, where you were safe, howelse should they expel you than by causing you to expel yourselves byviolence? When fools make war they expend their resources squanderingmoney...

Soul connections are not often found and are worth every bit of fight left in you to keep.

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy.

If it wasn’t for all those silver wings spread out to help you on your journey, you would’a been dead or someplace screamin’ in a nut house a long time ago.

Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for spiritual joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and spiritual joy you...

In the end, what I love most about contemporary yoga is its ability tosynthesize the everyday with the extraordinary, the practical with thevisionary, the mundane with the sacred. I love that yoga can work torelease...

What about the children?

Let the fires of truth burn away your false life and your excuses, fears, blaming, doubts and illusions of insignificance.

Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and...

We attract what we are. We attract who we are.

Live in the present, or die in your past; it’s your choice.

When you keep explaining and rehashing you just keep your mistake alive. Learn your lesson and adjust your behavior and move forward.

When you commune with your ever-present inner calm, you are released from the madness and pain of all outer turmoil.

With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work.

You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.

Introverted seekers need introverted evangelists. It’s not that extroverts can’t communicate the gospel, either verbally or nonverbally, in ways that introverts find appealing, it’s that introverted seekers need to know and see that it’s possible...

Without true celebration discipline is obnoxious.

We should count our blessings more than our happenings, as much as we should count our savings more than our earnings.

The world is changing because we’re changing it. And that makes me understand, at least, what kind of person I’d like to be. A person can seek ways, whether big or small, to heal the...

And so people ask God for signs and wonders. Yet when signs are given and wonders are performed, most can’t even see them! I therefore believe that it’s not signs people should be asking God...

As it is there isn’t a single thing isn’t an opportunity for some ‘alert’ person, including practically everybody by the ‘greed’, that, they are ‘alive’, therefore. Etc. That, in fact, there are ‘conditions’. Gravelly Hill...

I am” is enough to sustain me forever. I will lie on the grass at one with nature, expanding until my being fades into the infinite.

There’s something lyrical about an eternal truth. It’s a graceful riff. A free-flowing melody. Light and airy, it floats all around you. And when it lands on your ears, when you hear it for the...

Our unfathomable evolutionary past paints a picture vastly more immense than any spiritual story could ever create because it is raw and real, violent, dirty and beautiful—and because of that—it’s spectacular!

Faith is the muscle of the spirit. It is strengthened through study, prayer, and meditation. As exercise builds muscle and our bodies become strong; study, prayer, and meditation builds faith and our spirits become strong.

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it’s only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

If something’s existence is contingent upon the existence of another entity, can we truthfully call them separate beings?

My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus’ words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him. 

You are a victim only when you have decided to play the part.

Finding the calmness or serenity in oneself effectively diffuses the judgments of others