Change

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world... as in being able to remake ourselves.
“The Hindu scriptures speak of the body as a machine fraught with six delusive deficiencies: ‘It exists; it is born; it grows; it changes; it decays; and it is completely annihilated.’ Yet most human beings expect permanent happiness from this impermanent body.”
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
We meet our edge in the strangest places... we’re willing to jump off a bridge upside down, but we throw a tantrum when we can’t get a good cup of coffee.
As long as you are run by the egoic mind, you are part of the collective insanity... You don’t need to condemn. Just observe.
Zen masters use the word satori to describe a flash of insight, a moment of no-mind and total presence.
In every moment, you have a choice. To either honor the part of you that craves something more. Or to continue squeezing into a role that doesn’t fill your cup.
When you choose to live from a place of love, you are free to be yourself, to connect with your desires, and to take action from a place of empowerment. When you choose to live from a place of fear, you are always trying to fit in, denying who you really are in order to satisfy the expectations of others. The latter not only deprives you of [continue reading...]
A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; But whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.