We recognize now that we are bringing our external world genuinely and honestly into harmony with our inner perceptions, and we don't need to try so … - Ram Dass

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what HAPPENED to them.

I began to live in love as a state of being. It was as if love was no longer a verb with an object. In that state, I simply became a loving being, an emitter of love. It's a two-way street: as you become a loving being, the Universe is loving you. You are at home in the universe. hOMe, hOMe on the range.

We end up going through hell in meditation to quiet our mind, not because somebody says, “You ought to quiet your mind,” but because our agitated mind is driving us up the wall, and it’s keeping us from getting on with it.