"Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it..." - Quote by Rumi

“Every midwife knowsthat not until a mother’s wombsoftens from the pain of laborwill a way unfoldand the infant find that opening to be born.Oh friend!There is treasure in your heart,it is heavy with child.Listen.All the awakened ones,like trusted midwives are saying,'welcome this pain.It opens the dark passage of Grace.”

“Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.”

“But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.”

“Love means to reach for the skyand with every breath to tear ahundred veils. Love means to stepaway from the ego, to open the eyesof inner vision and not to take thisworld so seriously”

“There is another side to death. Whether death happens through an act of violence to a large number of people or to an individual, whether death comes prematurely through illness or accident, or whether death comes through old age, death is always an opening. So a great opportunity comes whenever we face death.”

“In spiritual growth, it is important to avoid imbalances between academic or intellectual learning and practical implementation. Otherwise there is a danger that too much intellectualiza tion will kill the more contemplative practices and too much emphasis on practical implementation without study will kill the understanding. There has got to be a balance.”

“A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.”

“The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.”

“I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.”