If you stub your toe, you don't need to dialog yourself to be good to your foot, do you? When you see things that clearly, there's no dialogue or emotional manipulation that you need to do to extend compassion to that being, because that being is a part of you, and if that being hurts, you hurt.
We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.
When you meet your guru or a being who knows, who is no longer loving, but has become love, a being who is sitting in truth, and in compassion and kindness for all beings - you know. When I met my guru, I knew. And it was before I met him physically, actually.
Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.
It's within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.
I chant to save my miserable ass. That's what I do.
There is an eighth color that we don't have the sense apparatus to see or experience.
You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.
You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.
One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.
The only real protection will come from doing a spiritual practice over a prolonged period of time. Because it retrains us to see the world and ourselves in a different way.
This is what I do to keep my head screwed on semi-straight and keep my heart open. Whenever I sing, that's why I sing. Whether it's at the Grammys, whether it's in the bathroom, whether it's in front of 10,000 people or three people, by my guru's grace, my head stays in that place.
Compassion is a college education. It's a doctorate.
I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That's the way we go through our lives. Everybody.
It's inexplicable why somebody can lose a leg and it doesn't effect them at all emotionally; and another person can lose a foot and be destroyed for the rest of their lives.
When we start to talk about gurus, we're talking about beings who actually know what this is all about. They know who we were, where we came from, and where we're going. They are not imprisoned in a selfish or self-centered view of the universe.
If I had been born in Germany with family of Nazis and if I had been raised with those beliefs, there was very little chance that I wouldn't be exactly like all those guards and all those people who tortured everybody.
