Our Journey

Our journey is toward simplicity and
quietness, to a kind of joy that is
beyond time, a journey where we leave
behind all our models of who we are.

Ram Dass

All I Achieve is His Service

Since the day when I met with my Lord, there
has been no end to the sport of our love. I shut
not my eyes, I close not my ears, I do not mortify
my body; I see with eyes open and smile, and
behold His beauty everywhere: I utter His Name,
and whatever I see, it reminds me of Him;
Whatever I do, it becomes His worship. Wherever
I go I move round Him; all I achieve is His service.

Kabir

We Are ...

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Nothing You Can Do

There's nothing you can do
until you're enlightened.

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
(per Ram Dass)

Bravery

The ultimate definition of bravery
is not being afraid of who you are.

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

It's Enough

It's extraordinary to start to rest
in the place in your being where
whatever it is, it's enough.

Ram Dass

Truth of Awareness and Suffering

When true awareness takes place, suffering does not exist. Through awareness, suffering is somewhat changed in its perspective. It is not necessarily that you do not suffer, but the haunting quality that fundamentally you are in trouble is removed. It is like removing a splinter. It might hurt, and you might still feel pain, but the basic cause of that pain, the ego, has been removed.

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Burn Out

If you think you're somebody doing something,
it's gonna burn out. Simple as that.

Ram Dass

Only to Serve Others

I don't want anything.
I exist only to serve others.

Neem Karoli Baba (Maharaj-ji)

The Source of Compassion

It's very easy to lose your center to service,
and to forget that compassion for ourselves
is the source of compassion for all others.

Ram Dass

Love Serve Remember

Love everyone, serve everyone,
remember God, and tell the truth.

Neem Karoli Baba (Maharaj-ji)

Becoming Nobody

Once you have become somebody,
then you are ready to start the journey
to becoming nobody.

Ram Dass

What a Master is For

You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed.
The day you open them you will see there is nothing
you can learn from me or anyone. What then is a Master
for? To make you see the uselessness of having one.

Anthony de Mello

The Love of God

Everything is impermanent,
except the love of God.

Neem Karoli Baba (Maharaj-ji)

No One Else

Nothing is being withheld from you. You are completely
on your own. Everything is available for direct knowing.
No one else has anything you need. No one else can lead
you, pull you, push you, or carry you.

Jed McKenna

Before We Are Ready

Most of us primarily have to get our psychological and
life games in order before we are ready for the higher
spiritual practices. Often we want more than we are
ready to have. We take on practices that could bring
you to God, or to enlightenment. But because we are
so caught in psychological stuff, in ego trips, we merely
take them and convert them to things around our ego.

Ram Dass

See God in Everything

It's better to see God in everything
than to try to figure it out.

Neem Karoli Baba (Maharaj-ji)

Open to Our Own Death

Until you and I have opened to the imminence
of our own death either personally or culturally,
we are being motivated by a behavior of avoidance
that is distorting the truth that we see.

Ram Dass

True Instrument

If you are going to be a true instrument
of the alleviation of suffering in the world,
you have to be able to look at suffering
with open eyes, with all of your stuff,
with your fear, and all of it.

Ram Dass

The Art is ...

The art is to be one
and dance as two.

Ram Dass

Being Is ...

Being is dying
by loving.

Meher Baba

Open Heart

Opening my heart made it easier
for my mind to change.

Ram Dass

Wait For Grace

Bring your mind to one point
and wait for grace.

Neem Karoli Baba (Maharaj-ji)

Comfortable with Not Knowing

Sometimes surrender means giving up
trying to understand and being comfortable
with not knowing.

Eckhart Tolle

Lemonade

When life gives you lemonade, there's
no need to fuck around with lemons.

Michael Gungor

You Are the Universe

You are the universe doing what the universe does,
just as light is what the sun does or a wave is what the
ocean does. You could also see this in the opposite way -
the universe is You doing what You do.

Michael Gungor

You May Never Know

You may never know what results come of your actions,
but if you do nothing there will be no results.

Mahatma Gandhi

My Message

My life is my message.

Mahatma Gandhi

Life Happens

Life is what happens when
you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon ("Beautiful Boy")

Truth Waits

Truth waits for eyes
unclouded by longing.

Ram Dass

Always Take Sides

Always take sides. Neutrality helps
the oppressor, never the victim.
Silence encourages the tormentor,
never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

The Right Friends

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends,
but it will always get you the right ones.

John Lennon

Help Someone

We can't help everyone, but
everyone can help someone.

John Lennon

Peace

Peace is not something you wish for; it's
something you make, something you do,
something you are, and something you give away.

John Lennon

Only Nobody

Only nobody gets free.

Ram Dass

Sense of Humor

If you don't have
a sense of humor,
it's just not funny.

Wavy Gravy

A Source of Danger

The literal mind does not understand the ironic mind,
and sees it always as a source of danger.

Christopher Hitchens

Being Everything

What is sought remains
hidden from the seeker
by already being everything.

Tony Parsons

Independent Mind

The essence of the independent mind lies
not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

Christopher Hitchens

Demand Nothing

When you demand nothing of the world,
nor of God, when you want nothing,
seek nothing, expect nothing then the
Supreme State will come to you
uninvited and unexpected.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Telling the Truth

If you stop telling lies about me,
I'll stop telling the truth about you.

Adlai Stevenson (to Richard Nixon)

I've Got a Feeling

Toto, I've got a feeling
we're not in Kansas anymore.

Dorothy (in Wizard of Oz)

No Place

There's no place
like home.

Dorothy (in Wizard of Oz)

Bad Company

If you're lonely when you're alone,
you're in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Nowhere Else

Heaven is the place where
you think of nowhere else.

Pico Iyer