Idle man, chases after fairy tales.
The one awakened liberated sees all things as one unseparated.
I am like God and God like me. I am as large as God. He is as small as I. He cannot above me nor I beneath him be.
If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.
By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.
The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.
We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that he had tried to ignore his own suffering and the suffering of other people because he had wanted to be happy. Yet becoming numb to suffering will not make us happy. The part in us that feels suffering is the same as the part that feels joy.
Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so much less to go around.
An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.
You are One with everything. When you are clear about this, your definition of self-interest will change.