9<br>11 woke us up, a nuclear 9<br>11 could shut us down.
I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.
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.
There is no normality in life. Having two houses means that we can get out of each other's hair - which, let's face it, we've both got a lot of
You know the wisdom is reflected in the knowledge when it's manifested; If not fed in due time, the mind is anorexic.
Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.
A healthy mind always likes to adore others, elevate them. An unhealthy mind likes to pull everything down.
911 woke us up, a nuclear 911 could shut us down.