Heaven isn’t a place, it’s a state of consciousness

I’m convinced that her obsession with Jesus was far more romantic than spiritual. I think she was actually attracted to him. I sincerely thought that one day while out on a grocery run, she would...

The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty...

Do not think that enlightenment is going to make you special, it’s not. If you feel special in any way, then enlightenment has not occurred. I meet a lot of people who think they are...

Your life right now is pretty darn good! Some people wait all day for 5pm, all week for Friday, all year for the holidays, all their lives for happiness. Don’t be one of them. Don’t...

If we get rid of all wishful thinking and dubious metaphysical speculations, we can hardly doubt that – at a time not too distant – each one of us will simply cease to be. It...

We live in the Age of the Higher Brain, the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously over the last few millennia, overshadowing the ancient, instinctive lower brain. The cortex is often called the new brain,...

…(my father) would say nothing,And I could not find a silenceAmong the one hundred Chinese silencesThat would fit the one he createdEven though I was the one Who had just made up the businessOf the...

Because your character is always full of ambition, the news of my being locked up must have been much harder on you than it was on me. When I was arrested, it was almost a...

To experience thinking outside the brain is to enter a world of instantaneous connections that make ordinary thinking (i.e those aspects limited by the physical brain and the speed of light_ seem like some hopelessly...

Whatever experiences we may come across in our spiritual journey we are not any of those experiences but rather the one who is witnessing them, the pure awareness cognizing them without thought.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality always included service to others. As he explained many times, the essence of...

Nature is our spirit, breathing.

People that criticize the harshest usually are the ones who would trade places the fastest

Negativity is a debilitating disease. It is a slow and painful way to experience life. It attacks the immune system, creates anxiety, and can lead to loneliness and depression. Finding your inner harmony is the...

Your transformation will be the miracle.

I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes our radiance: Nothing! I believe that that word does not point to our...

…This is the way we should see Christ. He is our friend, our brother; He is whatever is good and beautiful. He is everything. Yet, He is still a friend and He shouts it out,...

God has given me a lifeboat and said… ‘Moody save all you can

Go deep and live life from your truth within, and watch your most authentic self, full of love, peace, and beauty manifest out into the world.

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love...

We’re shadows! of naught – living, dying! for what’s not.

Blessed are the peacemakers.

If all of the steps of surrender are present, then a great Rembrandt or Monet will evoke love because the artist is simply there in all his naked humanity.

Inspiration is the seed of imagination, where great ideas bloom

I danced out my pain…It felt like praying, like flying.

Your treasure – your perfection – is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence...

You are the individual and the entire Universe.

I think God is such a good idea that if God didn’t exist, we’d have to invent God.

In it’s highest and purest form, good feng shui signifies perfect alignment between inner and outer worlds.

Because we tend to equate intelligence with language–particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate abstractions–it is natural to conclude that animals are, on the whole, a lot less intelligent than we are.

Our hearts are magnets. We attract to our heart the emotions that live within it

There is no such thing as a coincidence. You will feel this before you know it.

Hope is assurance of the promise..

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

There are always more questions… But I know one thing that is true: I have been saved by Jesus Christ, and I’m eternally grateful for that.

Once you discovered that it is ok to love yourself there will be a world opening up to you. You will experience the magic of this world, you will see its beauty in spite of...

All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent

Like the medieval cartographers of Europe, who felt one would fall into endless space at the edges of the oceans of their maps, we fear the presumed nothingness of no-self. Fortunately, there have been many...

Instead of being encouraged to feel completely protected, loved, honored, and respected by the Divine Force, you’ve been taught that you’re being judged. Because you’ve been taught that, you feel guilt and fear. But guilt...

To be whole, we need to embrace bothintuition and logic.

Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.

The system is religion, the law is spirituality. Take your pick.

This may be why Einstein once said; “Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses...

…knowing about your past lives is worse than useless if that knowledge doesn’t bring you some kind of positive change or healing.

Pause. Listen for the whispers of your Soul. Soul quietly flows through every part of you.

How to live spiritually:- Love and appreciate yourself- Be honest with yourself- Express yourself truthfully- Know you are abundance- Remember to use humor- Don’t forget to choose

It is as if I have entered what the Tibetans call the Bardo-literally, between-two-existences- a dreamlike hallucination that precedes reincarnation, not necessarily in human form…In case I should need them, instructions for passage through the...

Could it be, as one writer puts it, that every knock at the door of a brothel is actually a knock at the heart of God?