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"In India when we meet and part we often say, "Namaste," which means: I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace. I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us�.. "Namaste.""
"So your first job is to work on yourself. The greatest thing you can do for another human being is to get your own house in order and find your true spiritual heart."
"The final awakening is the embracing of the darkness into the light. That means embracing our humanity as well as our divinity. What we go from is being born into our humanity, sleep walking for a long time, until we awaken and start to taste our divinity. And then want to finally get free. We see as long as we grab at our divinity and push away our humanity we aren’t free. If you want to be free, you can’t push away anything. You have to embrace it all. It’s all God."
"Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you."
"Don't take yourself so personally."
"If you feel a sense of social responsibility, first of all keep working on yourself. Being peaceful yourself is the first step if you want to live in a peaceful universe."
"Real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes, but simply is."
"Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together."
"The interesting question is, how do you put yourself in a position so that you can allow ‘what is’ to be. The enemy turns out to be the creation of mind. Because when you are just in the moment, doing what you are doing, there is no fear. The fear is when you stand back to think about it. The fear is not in the actions. The fear is in the thought about the actions."
"Nature is really important because it's a manifestation of love that hasn't been run through human minds."
"The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light."
"We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them."
"After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don't have to change them. Things just change."
"As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is."
"Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment."
"The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back."
"Turn your melodrama into a mellow drama."
"Suffering only shows where you are attached. That is why, to those on the path, suffering is grace."
"Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama."
"The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different."