Heart language has one thing in common the world over. It is the quiet offering of understanding to others without the demand for being understood oneself.

“If your mind is clear, true knowledge is already yours.”

A palpable authority issues from one who speaks of his life’s journey. As Poonjaji would say, “A true teacher gives you only his or her experience; all else are preachers.”

In awakened awareness, our motivation for service becomes simple. There is nothing much to do here except love each other and be of help.

The fascinating new field of evolutionary psychology, or the study of genetic conditioning on behavior, traces our most deeply ingrained instinctual impulses and connects almost all of them to our capacity to survive and to propagate our genes. In fact, propagation of the genes seems to be the driving force underlying most of what we say, do, and

Yet, as our awareness deepens and expands, we find gratitude for all kinds of things, great and small, happy and sad, within that existence.

seems the only reasonable response in the face of them.

” When our motivation is pure, there is little ripple in the mind even if we have gone against the rules.

As the French philosopher Blaise Pascal noted in the seventeenth century, “All of man’s miseries stem from his inability to sit quietly in a room and do nothing.”