"I wish I could show you,
When you are lonely or in darkness,
The Astonishing Light
of your own Being!"

"Finished, finished,
when it is completely
finished
there is nothing to finish"

We do cross the infinite at every step, and meet the eternal in every second.

May all be happy and at their ease!
May they be joyous and live in safety!

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become—to be at last, and to die in the fullness of being.

Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece…

You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. you are not a stranger here.

The problem is not enjoyment: the problem is attachment

Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is the ocean.

One must remain in the vastness, 
alert and lucid,
letting one’s gaze encompass 
the infinity of the sky,
as though seated on the summit of a mountain
open to all the horizons. 

An intense love of solitude, distaste for involvement in worldly affairs, persistence in knowing the self and awareness of the goal of knowing—all this is called true knowledge

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love…

You mustn’t wish for another life, you mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: “Rejoice evermore Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks.” I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.

We give dignity to each other by the way we listen to each other, in a spirit of trust and of dying to oneself so that the other may live, grow and give.

Attention is the beginning of devotion.

One of the essential elements of life is the understanding that everything we encounter—fear, resentment, jealousy, embarrassment—is actually an invitation to see clearly where we are shutting down and holding back.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

We get quiet for a moment in meditation. We sink down to a relaxedness, a calmness, abruptly free from all the crazy dreams we confuse with reality. And in that instant, by mistake maybe, or because we aren’t thinking to stop it from happening—we experience, in a flash, things as they really are.

We humans have a way of touching each other’s lives deeply even despite ourselves. In finding our way to each other, we find what is, after all, already there, waiting to be found, wanting to be found.

Anger is considered a poison when it’s self-motivated and self-centered. But take that attachment to the self out of anger and the same emotion becomes the fierce energy of determination, which is a very positive force … Drop the self-orientation from ignorance, and it becomes a state of unknowing that allows new things to rise.