“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.”
“If you listen to your own inner voice, it will tell you where you are now, and which method will work best for you in your evolution towards the light.”
“Trust the messages coming from your heart and intuition.”
“Start from where you are – not where you wish you were. The work you’re doing becomes your path.”
“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”
“The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself. Rather, you are penetrating the layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being.”
“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.”
“Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment.”
“The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to fear to all of it. And as long as there is a place where your vulnerable, the universe will find a way to confront you with it.”
"As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly. Struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don't have to change them. Things just change."
“Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.”
