Gandhi’s statement, “Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it”.

We can’t get into a struggle against it, because every time we’re busy struggling against something, we’re reinforcing its reality.

mantra—“The power of God is within me. The grace of God surrounds me”—which we can repeat to ourselves. It will protect us. Grace will surround us like a gentle force field. Through an open heart, one hears the universe.

We open the heart with breath or thoughts, and we call upon whomever we’re in close contact with as a spiritual guide, perhaps Christ. We might say, “Christ, let me feel your love.” We’re not asking him to love us; we’re asking to be allowed to feel the love he has for us. If we really open ourselves and ask that in truth, we can possibly feel a wa

You say every life situation is a perfect lesson. How is that so? The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out our reactivity, which is our attachment, our clinging, to pain, to pleasure, to fear, to all of it. And as long as there are places where we’re vulnerable, the universe will find ways to confront us with them. That’

called the sangha in Buddhism, or satsang in Hinduism, the community of beings that I hang

Ramana Maharshi refers to these concepts, specifically the concept of “I” or “Self,” as the stick that you use to stir the funeral pyre.

The compassion is to let people be as they need to be without changing them.

If we don’t deviate the flow or color it with our own trips, it comes through purely in whatever form it is our dharma to express, and the mind is freed.