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The vision of your infinite beauty

consumes me

your myriad scent overcomes me

as I melt within your presence

listening to your devine song

I find union within the overwhelming orchestration of your being

The touch of your hand

burns away all seperation

as I fall helplessly within your embrace

it is there that I move ever closer until

I touch your lips

where within your kiss

i taste the only bliss

the bliss of oneness

What work I have done I have done because it has been play....

Earth comprises distances, great and small;

danger and security; open ground and narrow passes; the chances of life and death....

Its not about your family, its not about your community, its not about your country, its about people....

As a world we need to take the next step and make it possible for all people of the earth to come out of hiding and be able to work in any country....

When the traveler becomes the path

and the path becomes the destination

the journey is complete.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

There is a force

that has manifested

animated, unified and caused the universe

or universes to move in perfect orchestration

Does it really matter what we call it?...

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it....

As I fall away the chill of death embraces me and germinates the seeds of love

which spring forth and blossom

giving birth to the fruit of eternal union

By stripping away the garments of your judgement

you will be liberated from

your attachments

your desires

your thoughts

your feelings

you will be overwhelmed

by the brilliance and pure beauty

of your naked soul

standing naked your consciousness

will dissolve within the sea of love

If you're searching for Truth you must look in the mirror and make sense of what you can see......

True wisdom is the ability to observe and accept every point of view with equanimity....

There is only one

that stand fearless and naked

within the light of being

All that we are is the result of what we have thought....

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

There's no pleasure on earth that's worth sacrificing for the sake of an extra five years in the geriatric ward of the Sunset Old People's Home, Weston-Super-Mare.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense....

The spirit dances

the soul expands

and the mind is consumed

by the amorous fire

that engulfs the heart

To truly love

I must know that

I am lover and beloved

Intoxicated by the elixir of the spirit

I collapse and dissolve

The only way to know love

is to be in love

for in truth

love is in you

you are in love

love is in all

and all is in love

Why spend your life trying to know yourself

to know is to forget yourself.

Happiness is when what you think

what you say and what you do are in harmony.

We are all on a journey

as we grow in rememberance

moving along the pathways of life

we are taught by love, truth and life

as we begin to ascend the mount of our destiny

we look to those who have passed this way before and indicate to those who will follow after

The higher we ascend

the greater the vista of our perception

as we near the summit

we are embraced by the light

We become like Icarus

as we take flight upon the divine wings of love

the separation we once knew is consumed

by the essence and presence of the fire of its spirit

liberation is found

and the love in union is revealed

There have been many who have desired

to see the face of god

to see this great face

one must look through the all seeing eyes of love....

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.

You can never possess it

You can never know it

you can never become it

yet all is a dance within it

Modern Physics impresses us particularly with the truth of the old doctrine which teaches us that there are realities existing apart from our sense-perceptions, and that there are problems and conflicts where these realities are of greater value for us than the richest treasures of the world of experience.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace....

Many follow the path of love

but only one arrives at the destination

We are all like candles

in a forest fire of unconditional love

stripping away the garments of desire

I behold the naked truth.

It is within the stillness of being....

That which you think is so important

will be forgotten

That which you feel you cannot live without

will be lost

and that which you which you refuse to look at

will be seen

Like butter

heart, mind and soul

are melted away and clarified

by the essence of life....

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them....

Consumed by its desire for love

separation found no other

We are all like windows to and from the beyond....

Need to change your life?...

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count....

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

To that which is born, death is certain; to that which is dead, birth is certain.

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror; to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

Despite rumor, death isn't cruel - merely terribly, terribly good at his job.

Every man dies....

If you're going to risk dying, there's no sense doing it wet, cold and hungry unless absolutely necessary.

For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously.

Nothing improves a person's hearing better than praise.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation, for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.

Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

People will forget what you said....

A speech is like a love affair....

Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.

Setting an example is not the main mean of influencing another, it is the only mean.

Nothing so much needs reforming as other people's habits.

Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people go right on talking when you're interrupting.

When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training.

Silence is often the best thing to say.

Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Demagogues are so easy to identify....

Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper light.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Everything enjoyable is either immoral, illegal, or fattening.

People who cannot bear to be alone are generally the worst company.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Quality is not an act....

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

There's a mighty big difference between good sound reasons, and reasons that sound good.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

How easy it was to produce scape-goats and how readily they were accepted!...

Sometimes we can be so anxious to provide our children with what we did not get in our childhood, that we might forget to give them what we did get.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

You can learn many things from children....

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.

Dogs come when you call them....

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.

Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat.

Experimental animals, under carefully controlled laboratory conditions, do what they damned will please.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

That which does not destroy us makes us stronger.

Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows....

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

The truth is the only one thing that nobody will believe.

We will either find a way, or make one.

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

If a man would move the world, he must first move himself.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

He who has begun has half done.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

He that does good to another does good also to himself

Give me a place to stand, and I will move the world.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can

I think, therefore I am

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing....

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise

It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up

God is good, but never dance in a small boat

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Richard Feynman

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you're the easiest person to fool

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back

Remedy it, or welcome it: a wise man's only two choices

Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day

The key to happiness and youth is an unencumbered spirit - whether it comes naturally or whether you have to work hard for it

The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow....

It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time

Sometimes the best way to hold onto something is to let it go

Sometimes the only way you can take a really good look at yourself is through somebody else's eyes

Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

When you throw dirt, you lose ground

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.

Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us....

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

When you lose, don't lose the lesson

It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back

You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character

I try not to kid myself....

Aspire to a lower level of harm

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Never make your home in a place....

Beware of a man of one book

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

The best way to predict your future is to create it

Is bread the better for kneading?...

Don't despise empiric truth....

Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others