Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.
We do not need to go out and find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us.
The life and passion of a person leave an imprint on the ether of a place. Love does not remain within the heart, it flows out to build secret tabernacles in a landscape.
Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved.
We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.
When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence.
…the only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is time.
It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly there is a flash of recognition and the embers of kinship glow. There is an awakening between you, a sense of ancient knowing.
Friendship is a creative and subversive force. It claims that intimacy is the secret law of life and universe.
When you steal a people’s language, you leave their soul bewildered.
One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen.
All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and contours. You feel the inspiration of its possibilities and the wonder of its mysteries.
The secret and the sacred are sisters. When the secret is not respected, the sacred vanishes. Consequently, reflection should not shine too severe or aggressive a light on the world of the soul.
Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence.
the search for meaning is really the search for the lost chord. When the lost chord is discovered by humankind, the discord in the world will be healed and the symphony of the universe will come into complete harmony with itself.
Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.
If you try to view yourself through the lenses that others offer you, all you will see are distortions; your own light and beauty will become blurred, awkward, and ugly. Your sense of inner beauty has to remain a very private thing.
The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness.
You are as young as you feel. If you begin to feel the warmth of your soul, there will be a youthfulness in you that no one will be able to take away from you.
We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined program for our lives.
It is strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you.
So at the end of this day, we give thanksFor being betrothed to the unknown.
It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited, to look in the eyes and find light there.
The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused.
Take time to see the quiet miracles thatseek no attention
It’s strange to be here, the mystery never leaves you alone”.
A blessing is a circle of light drawn around a person to protect, heal and strengthen.
The joyful heart sees and reads the world with a sense of freedom and graciousness.
Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics, and the institutions of family and community all have become abruptly unsure.
Most people are enduring a marginalized isolation. One of the great obstacles to modern friendships is the ‘religion of rush.’ People are rushing all the time through time. Friendship takes time.
We need great prophetic leaders in religion and in spirituality… what we are getting is lacking in vision… not able to engage with the diversity of the culture.
If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know will be revealed to you.
Much of the stress and emptiness that haunt us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, the mind becomes coarse and dull if it remains unvisited by images and thoughts that hold the radiance of beauty.
I think the divine is like a huge smile that breaks somewhere in the sea within you, and gradually comes up again.