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"Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object."
"When your mind is quiet, you enter into the flow of love, and you just flow from one moment to the next as naturally as breathing. Whatever arises, I embrace it with love in the moment. This is my practice of polishing the mirror to reflect love. In this moment there is just awareness and love. If someone asks me how to get into their heart, I give them this practice: I Am Loving Awareness."
"The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it."
"All you can do for another person is be an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air, they could."
"You have everything in you that Buddha has, that Christ has. You've got it all. But only when you start to acknowledge it is it going to get interesting. Your problem is you're afraid to acknowledge your own beauty. You're too busy holding on to your own unworthiness. You'd rather be a schnook sitting before some great man. That fits in more with who you think you are. Well, enough already. I sit before you and I look and I see your beauty, even if you don't."
"You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing."
"If you rest in the silence inside, all those you meet will have their spiritual hearts resuscitated."
"If you would truly bring peace to the world, identify with that place within you where you are Peace."
"The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening."
"I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am."
"In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight."
"Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code."
"If you think you're free, there's no escape possible."
"Thoughts are going by like a river; awareness simply is."
"The next message you need is always right where you are."
"After one arrives at the summit, after going through the total transformation of being...there is yet one more step to the completion of that journey: the return to the valley below, to the everyday world. Who it is that returns is not who began the climb in the first place. The being that comes back is quietness itself, is compassion and wisdom, is the truth of the ages. Whatever humble or elevated position that being holds within the community, he or she becomes a light for others on the way a statement of the freedom that comes from having touched the top of the mountain."
"Look at the people you don't love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart."
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"I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!"
"We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves."