"Compassion is the radicalism of our time."
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"So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly."
"Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people."
"I get frustrated with people who say that a drug experience can have no spiritual validity. I'm here to tell you that all experience is a drug experience. We're all on drugs all the time, largely because we are MADE of drugs"
"Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison."
"It takes energy, mental toughness and spiritual reinforcement to successfully deal with life's opportunities, and to reach your objectives."
"The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life."
"Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison."
"All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness."
"The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist."
"I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others."
"True refinement seeks simplicity."
"When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves."
"A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable."
"I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and the need to travel, between the varied and seductive paths of the heart. The lessons of impermanance, the occasional despair and the muse, so tenuously moored, all visit their needs upon me and I dig deeply for the spiritual utilities that restore me: my love for the place, for the one man left, for my children and friends and the great green pulse of spring."
"Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!"
"Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility."
"The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of God as a supernatural being is enormous."
"Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity."
"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves."