No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God’s valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn’t know what it is...

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.

There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to...

Although people all over the world pray in different ways, it is to each heart the most precious light.

Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.

We believe that today’s younger generation, who started a global movement by camping out on Wall Street and its equivalents around the world and who are often choosing a road less traveled rather than joining...

I am a haystack in a needle of time.

The unseen essential can be described in many ways and comes in many forms, but is always preceded by virtue.

Your unmatched spirit is an emerging expression of the fingerprint of life.

Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons.

Allow the hammer of pain to split open the stone armor of your hardness; exposing the tenderness and beauty of your sweet spirit and sacred heart.

The man who wishes to know the “that” which is “thou” may set to work in any one of three ways. He may begin by looking inwards into his own particular thou and, by a...

Again and again, counteract the agitation and turbulence of the mind by relaxing more deeply, not by contracting the body or mind.

Thoughts, words, emotions & deeds not coming from love are likely coming from fear.

I’m Noah, and you are the ship coasting along the banks and as long as you are my valentine I will sail between your eyes..

What I aim to do is not so much learn the names of the shreds of creation that flourish in this valley, but to keep myself open to their meanings, which is to try to...

Work, he tells them one night, is a kind of prayer.

Just because something doesn’t go as planned, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth your while. Sometimes you have to fall forward, by learning what doesn’t work, to discover what does. Sometimes you have to get knocked...

The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.

At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos. There is no difference between your breathing and the breathing of the rain forest, between your bloodstream and the world’s rivers, between your bones and...

I realized there really is a natural interplay between my spirituality and my creativity. When I enter into a spirit of prayer, I can cultivate a receptive space and actually ask God for creative ideas...

My body kills me, so I kill it.

And many years later, as an adult student of history, Knecht was to perceive more distinctly that history cannot come into being without the substance and the dynamism of this sinful world of egoism and...

What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don’t need.

Wisdom is not guaranteed with age but is realized through one’s sensitivity to humanity and the universe

You don’t have to act crazy anymore—We all know you were good at that,Now retire, my dear,From all that hard work you doOf bringing pain to your sweet eyes and heart.Look in a clear mountain...

Every generation has been given the same blueprint to follow for the good of society. When that blueprint is disregarded by parents and those in leadership positions, the chain is broken and the human race...

Your only limitations are those that you impose upon yourself

Empathy” were subjects included in every grade school’s curriculum. A new generation would emerge with an attitude of peace, contentment and an overall appreciation for everything and everyone

And if the central religious image was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and love of...

Asking for blessings,receiving blessings, becoming a blessing,becoming a source of blessings

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Often, we will stay in a miserable status quo until the misery finally exceeds the resistance to change. True wisdom is seeing the future: what will happen if change does not happen?

Hanya sunyi, yang sanggup mengajarkan kita, untuk tak mendua.

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.

We had little idea that this was the beginning of a much greater journey towards finding our true self, with Rumi and Shams as our fearless guides.

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to....

It’s not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you’ll find out, when you’ve been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is.

The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart.

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out...

The only human disease is amnesia.

Two of the greatest hungers in our world today are the hunger for spirituality and the hunger for social change. The connection between the two is the one the world is waiting for, especially the...

Be Good-Do Good-Be One

Animals suffer both emotionally and physically, but they don’t suffer metaphysically. That is, they don’t suffer about suffering, don’t get thrown into spiritual confusion by it, or fall out of connection with the divine because...

The result of mindful awareness is the development of our virtues, which are the basic positive building blocks of our life.

Daily mediation is a healthy spiritual exercise.

The tragedy of every religion is that it needs a church to survive.

First stage is knowing the truth, second is not knowing the truth, third is realizing the paradox.

Knowledge and the study of God’s Word is voided by the folding of unwilling hands.