meditation

I don't believe in greatness that is bestowed as a rare gift to a few lucky ones. Rather, I think all people have greatness inside them. It is just a matter of persistence--sticking to what you have envisioned until it is reality. I have a deep conviction that everyone, including you, has been given exactly the right set of gifts to fulfill some magnificent purpose in life. Greatness must simply be chosen. And if you choose it, it will happen.

What a miracle, that all we have to do to be beautifully loving creatures is just relax and allow.

What can you give God but bhakti bhava? He owns it all anyway.

Be patient and keep faith. It will all fall into place.

I can be alone without being lonely. In fact, those times of solitude are necessary respite for a beleaguered soul, set upon by the pressures of life. I need to take whatever moments I can to just be still.

We are all poor in the face of God's majesty. Not all of us realise it.

In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound.

The contemplation of consciousness__hich is the contemplation of no-thing whatsoever__s endlessly fascinating. It__ like staring at a candle in a dark night__ou find yourself mesmerized by something that is unchanging yet infinitely compelling. You feel drawn into something you don__ understand rationally but that your heart or soul grasps completely. You are drawn into it, and as you are drawn into it, the only thing you experience as real is the eternal or timeless nature of Being itself. You find yourself in a state of rapture, because the deepest part of yourself has been released from your ego__ endless fears and concerns, and drawn out of the time process altogether.

Continue to breathe, peaceful and easy. Light in, light out, love in, loveout. Rest in your feelings of well-being.

When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself

Devotion is a spiritual act of egoless surrender. When the Self blinds the spirit too tightly, then devotion expands the blinding by lifting us beyond ourselves. We get the powerful lesson that the Self survives even without constant attention.

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

Try taking five minutes for meditation. Close your eyes and in your mind picture Jesus. Watch Him turn, look at you and hear Him...

I tell my students not to be frightened; in the history of Buddhism-for 2,500 years-no one has broken or fractured a leg because of sitting in meditation.

No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved.

Do not gossip about monks and speak ill of spiritual teachers

Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.

Everything you ever needed to know is waiting in the space between your thoughts.