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"Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it's the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations."
"The gift you offer another person is just your being."
"Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body."
"When you are completely identified with your thinking mind you are totally separate from everything else in the universe."
"Inspiration is God making contact with itself."
"In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear."
"As you look at many people's lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in it. They make their lives a living hell, but a familiar one."
"You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind."
"My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got."
"The soul is not part of the incarnation. It comes into the incarnation. And the soul is not afraid of death because it has done it so many times."
"The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering."
"Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free."
"It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control."
"You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing."
"Old age spiritualizes people naturally"
"Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true."
"In the depth of the soul is the atman, the oversoul. And that oversoul is really love and compassion, peace, joy, and wisdom."
"You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into."
"Who you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn't make any difference to who you truly are."
"External silence can be the doorway to inner silence."