We must be guided by faith. If we are guided by fear we lock ourselves and our expansion.
And resting in the ocean, dipped into the sea, I find glimmers of One Taste everywhere.
Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.
Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And it does not render the self content, it renders it undone.
Da Free John's phrase kept running through my mind: "Practice the wound of love. . . practice the wound of love. " Real love hurts; real love makes you totally vulnerable and open; real love will take you far beyond yourself; and therefore real love will devastate you. I kept thinking, if love does not shatter you, you do not know love.
The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the very search for enlightenment prevents it. The 'perfect practice' is therefore not to search for enlightenment but to inquire into the motive for seeking itself. You obviously seek in order to avoid the present, and yet the present alone holds the answer: to seek forever is to miss the point forever. You always already are enlightened Spirit, and therefore to seek Spirit is simply to deny Spirit.
I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.
The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.
When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.
There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.
Id just like to prove to myself that Im all here and all together and can get the best out of myself. Id also like to prove that to a couple of other people.