Great Throughts Treasury

"The next message you need is always right where you are."

"The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization."

"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear."

"The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering."

"The secret is that you're not able to hear."

"The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth."

"The stroke caused me to lose faith, and it was a cold, cold place, and I suddenly realized it was fierce grace"

"The World is perfect as it is, including my desire to change it"

"There are three stages in this journey that I have been on. The first, the social science stage; the second, the psychedelic stage; and the third, the yogi stage."

"There is nothing more than this."

"There is something in humanity that goes to the brink"

"There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life."

"To dissolve agitations and attachments of the mind is to remove the veils from our heart. It allows us to meet one another in the purity of love."

"Treat everyone you meet like God in drag."

"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 with one another."

"We were exploring this inner realm of consciousness that we had been theorizing about all these years and suddenly we were traveling in and through and around it."

"We're all just walking each other home."

"We're being trained through our incarnations "

"We're fascinated by the words "

"We're here to awaken from the illusion of separateness."

"What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death."

"What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at "

"What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution."

"When I got the stroke, I was surrounded by people with negative takes on it. That is our culture's attitude toward stroke and I had that attitude."

"When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them."

"When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God."

"When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us."

"When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time."

"When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there."

"Whenever anybody that I trusted brought along some new chemical, I would open my mouth and off I'd go."

"Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act."

"Yes. In the 60's, there was a famous slogan,] Be Here Now... Be Somewhere Else Now."

"You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into."

"You can"

"You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind."

"Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness."