Passion is what gives sense to our life.
No matter how it looks to us, love never loses control; the laws of our relations are as honest and as exact as the laws of physics.
The seduction of evil is precisely in that it involves us in trying to eliminate it. When your consciousness is open, any action you take in reference to evil has no more significance than digging a ditch to channel floodwaters away from a house.
The universe is made of one kind of what-ever-it-is, which cannot be defined.
You do not need to do anything first to be enlightened.
No matter what happens, I am conscious all the time.
Whatever we have done in withdrawing from full consciousness of the One Mind, we are doing now. Whatever we are doing will always be within us to do, even when we are not doing it, and therefore is not to be resisted, but transcended. These are reminders I frequently use: "That's always within me. " "This, too, can be experienced with a completely expanded awareness. "
With people too, you constantly think, "If I'm nice to people and treat them well, they'll appreciate it and behave better. " They won't, but it's still not a bad way to live.
If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden. I should like her to forgive that she for my sake is wounded by plough and harrow, and willingly to open for my dead body.
Eloquence may set fire to reason.
Mandelstam - his gift and the untamable nature of it - was like a thorn in Stalin's brain.