You’re a terrible liar, Sage, but I’m still touched you’d attempt it for my sake. A for effort.
The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.
We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.
Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.
In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The purpose is to work directly with the most primary elements of our body and our mind, to see the ways we get trapped by our fears, desires, and anger, to learn directly our capacity for freedom.
When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.
One man's trash is another man's girlfriend.
The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do.
I think that gay people in some ways end up forming a very different sense of humour to straight people. We all go through similar things and it's a way of dealing with it.