Quotes

A great fire in our soul

There may be a great fire in our soul, but no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a little bit of smoke coming through the chimney and pass on their way. Now, you must tend that inward fire, wait patiently for the hour when somebody will come and sit down near it -- to stay there maybe?

Letters to Theo

Ego

Ego is convinced that Love is dangerous.

Follow your bliss

If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

Our yearning for loving connections

For what we are beginning to wake up to today ...is that we have for millenia structured our social institutions and our systems of values precisely in ways that serve to block, distort, and pervert our enormous human yearning for loving connections.

"Sacred Pleasure", p. 383

Love is trust

  • Love is trust
  • Love is smell
  • Love is how you treat someone well under pressure.

When you hold back your Love

  • When you hold back your Love
  • Hoping to find more elsewhere,
  • You learn how to wait,
  • Not how to Love.

When true giving occurs

When true giving occurs, you have more afterwards than when you started.

I know you

I know you, you're just like me.

How to fix people

How to fix people (listening for engineers :-)

  • People have really good built in diagnostics.
  • If you listen well the will tell you what is wrong.
  • If you listen really well they will hear what is wrong.
  • If you're an expert listener they will hear what is wrong and realize they no longer need fixing.

Symptoms of Inner Peace

Be on the lookout for symptoms of inner peace. The hearts of a great many have already been exposed to inner peace and it is possible that people everywhere could come down with it in epidemic proportions. This could pose a serious threat to what has, up to now, been a fairly stable condition of conflict in the world.Some signs and symptoms of inner peace:

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