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“Long before I met you I had waited for you. I had always waited for you.”

“Stay at the center and let all things take their course”

The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

Even if you’re going to live three thousand more years, or ten times that, remember: you cannot lose another life than the one you’re living now, or live another one than the one you’re losing. The longest amounts to the same as the shortest. The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?

“The more you are motivated by Love, the more Fearless and Free your action will be.”

The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

You have to ask yourself two questions: Who am I? And how may I become myself?

What is it that is older than everything? It is love.

“Maybe when we die, the first thing we’ll say is, ‘I know this feeling. I was here before.’”

Awareness has infinite gradations, like light.