Great Throughts Treasury

"I'd get to a point with my colleagues when I couldn't explain any further, because it came down to "To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.""

"If you think you are truly enlightened, go spend a weekend with your parents [family]."

"If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know one!"

"I'm not interested in being a "lover". I'm interested in only being love."

"In India when we meet and part we often say, "

"In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight."

"In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear."

"In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?"

"Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them."

"Inspiration is God making contact with itself."

"It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed."

"It was as if the whole western mind-training of individual differences had been made background instead of figure, so that you'd look at another human being and say, "Here we are." You'd see differences more as clothing, rather than as core stuff."

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"It's a space where I'm loving and truthful and wise and compassionate and I'm not even trying."

"It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!"

"It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control."

"It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos."

"Learn how to witness your thought process and your attitudes. Then at least you can be a witness rather than a participant swept up by the trauma."

"Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama."

"Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together."

"My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too."

"My life is a creative act "

"My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy."

"Nobody hath found God by walking his own way."

"Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying."

"Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible."

"Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear."

"Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality."

"Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way."

"Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough."

"Prolong not the past. Invite not the future. Do not alter your innate wakefulness. Fear not appearances. There is nothing more than this."

"Psychedelics helped me to escape"

"Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them."

"Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we're so deeply interconnected with one another. Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is the supreme creative act."

"Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter because we are so deeply interconnected. Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is the supreme creative act."

"See, suffering is because of attachment. So suffering means you better get stepping on your attachments."

"Somehow I figure that why we take incarnation is because we learn about two things in this life: suffering and love."

"Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally."

"Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise."

"Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us."

"That need was for truth, for compassion, for wisdom, for the Beloved. I wanted to merge with the Beloved."

"The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are."

"The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it."

"The fun is having friends who help each other get free."

"The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody."

"?The God within is your Spiritual Heart. Your Soul. And in that individual Soul, rests God- rests the One. Go into your soul and your heart-space which can be Awareness, Love, Compassion, etc"

"The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back."

"The most exquisite paradox"

"The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it"