"You experience that you are cut off by being in your mind, and there is a quality that is starving in an individual that is locked in their mind. So when you move to another plane of consciousness which is no longer controlled by your intellect, which is really the sub-system and you move into the meta-system, what you feel at that moment is... you are the universe, you feel merged with it, you feel thick with the moment, and that richness is so fulfilling."
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"Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act."
"Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW...so you stop asking."
"When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God."
"Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about."
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"One of the ego's favorite paths of resistance is to fill you with doubt."
"Each person tells you who they think they are, and who they think you are."
"If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature."
"Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego."
"The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there-so there the mountain stays."
"Be patient. You'll know when it's time for you to wake up and move ahead."
"Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse."
"Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear."
"I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken."
"We gain internal freedom through external actions."
"Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings."
"We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering."
"If you want oneness in society, you have to teach people to go inside instead of going outside, because if they want peace, they need to find it within."
"So many times each day we support each other informally without ever becoming 'helper' or 'helped.' Perhaps we're finding an article of clothing for a partner, cutting bread for one of the children, collecting the mail for the person at the next desk, holding the coat for someone at a restaurant."