You are the work of God, and His work is wholly lovable and wholly loving. This is how a man must think of himself in his heart, because this is what he is. A sense of separation from God is the only lack you really need...
Every day for 20 years I would say, 'what am I gonna do next?' That's how I would ask for inspiration. I don't have any ideas myself. I have a vacant mind, you know; in order to do exactly what the inspiration calls for. And I...
If a person understands that the divine exists in all living beings, no living beings would be afraid of him nor will he be afraid of any. This is an experience I had with Babaji when it came to snakes and bears. Nothing bothered him...
Shame is a tough one until you re-contextualize it. Shame is really vanity. Pride. Shame is pride, projected on society and visited back upon yourself. You let go of the pridefullness, and own that being a human leaves you [open] to being fallible. It's okay...
Your mind is just like a crystal. Suppose you put a red flower before a crystal, what happens? The crystal looks red. Remove it, put a blue flower, it looks blue. Does the red or blue color stick to the crystal? Never. So also your...
You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. C.S. Lewis We have a choice at any moment - two ways to approach any situation. The first is the way of the animal nature - the ego - which has as its primary directive Survival...
There is a state of mind of absolute calmness, where the mind remains absolutely still, quiet and calm like the full moon. It spreads its light everywhere, the cool light of the moon. That is the state which is potentially in all of us even...
Certain indeed is death for the born and certain is birth for the dead; therefore over the inevitable you should not grieve. Bhagavad Gita, Chapter II, vs. 27 Change is inevitable in the field of relative existence; it is going on even in the present, as it was in the past...
Werner [Herzog] told me he once met a champion ski jumper from Norway who one season beat all his adversaries. "He was also an architecture student and the following year wrote his thesis on the construction of ski ramps. He thought so much about those...
Why not think of spiritual development as something where we need to put in a lot of work? As long as it remains a hobby, we make some progress but not go beyond. Nowadays, people meditate to be free from stress and lose weight! While...