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The deeper we go, the more space we have internally.

Misery loves company. People are more interested in maintaining their connectedness through misery than in freeing themselves and being with God.

Do you want power or God?

 Only through our stillness can God’s vitality fully shine through.        

You don’t have to leave the Heart to think. Thinking will only be clear if you rest in the Heart and enliven the mechanism of thinking.

Under the guise of looking for unity, we tend to go to the most superficial. Real unity is found only by turning in to the deepest core of our soul.

Attention is the fuel. We maintain our addiction with our attention, our will. But attention is also the cure—if our attention is in the Heart. Depending on where it is, our attention will feed the addiction or starve it. Boring into the Heart burns away our attachment to twisted love.

Practice can seem easy and natural until it requires us to accept that we are not “the good person” we believe we are. Then we turn on the practice with hostility.

Rejection is not renunciation.

You can’t just decide you’re not your small self anymore, because the one making that decision is the small self.