If the most connected we’ve ever felt with another person was in that brief moment of apology and regret after physical abuse, then we’ll seek that abuse for the rest of our lives.
Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.
I only accept your mistakes and flaws to the degree that I accept my own.
Our culture has bred consumers and addicts. We eat too much, buy too much, and want too much. We set ourselves on the fruitless mission of filling the gaping hole within us with material things. Blindly, we consume more and more, believing we are hun...
The desire to be loved, to feel loved, is behind every diet, pill, surgery, and lie. It is behind each act of violence and every affair as well as each organized religion and every method of self-help.
Day after day, more and more medications are prescribed for depression and addiction, assuming that these things run in our blood, when really they run in our patterns of awareness.
When we can see our own self, angry and hurting others, within every villain, then we can love. When we can see our own desperate struggle for belonging in the eyes of every enemy, then we can love. When we can look at the greatest of atrocities and ...
If you ate nails, your stomach would hurt, and it’s a good thing that it would. Eating nails is deadly, thus the pain is helpful. Like this, sadness, anger, and anxiety are not to be feared or shamed, but listened to and decoded.
Whether something is wonderful or horrible, the most harmful thought we can think is “Will this last forever?
Fear becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Thinking that there is something to be avoided manifests something to avoid.
No matter how much you cry, the tears will dry. No matter how many nightmares, flashbacks, visions, or terrors you endure, they will pass. To weather these in order to find your true self and the happiness you deserve, that is not a risk. To waste th...
It is almost as if we are all playing a big game of hide-and-go-seek. We all hide expecting to be found, but no one has been labelled the seeker. We stand behind the wall, at first excited, then worried, then bored, then anxious, then angry. We hide ...
Looking with eyes of love is about not only looking, but seeing.
Of course, being open and vulnerable will lead us to, sometimes, experience pain. But what is pain? It is simply a feeling. It is not forever. If you get pain from some person or thing too many times, you can always walk away. To risk a lifetime with...
You are eternal, beautiful, and real.
The ultimate barrier against love is the barrier of the constructed self.
We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power.
It is not until you learn to look at yourself, through the truth of who you are, that you can look at someone else.
We sacrifice our potential because we do not know that we are pure potential.
We throw away real people searching for the "perfect" person the same way that we throw ourselves away searching for our "perfect" self.
