"The common mind and pure awareness are not the same. Pure awareness can exist beyond the linear limits of the mind, but the mind cannot exist without awareness."

“To know the human heart you must make yourself defenseless to Love.”

“Real compassion only comes about when we allow the emotional filters in our minds to fall silent, to permit the innermost Self to act as the prime conductor for our hearts, — then let the mind follow.”

“I had sought to avoid the eristic disputes of religious rights and wrongs that are too often the driving subject of modern metaphysicians and spiritual pundits. My search was for a knowledge that stood above human opinion or the manufactured morals of differing societies. And while I understood that an uncorrupted knowledge might serve as a great purifier and a means to infer the truth of our existence, I intuitively knew that knowledge alone couldn’t give a truth seeker what he or she is ultimately seeking.”

“You can always choose between resistance or possibility. This simple choice determines the difference between failure or success. The secret rests in learning to listen without prejudice or predilection.”

“The whole of consciousness can be partitioned into two states that are never truly separate from each other, — a field of limitless and absolute silence, and its ingrained field of continually changing dynamic energy.”

“What our world has accepted as normal is actually extreme limitation!”