When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of sensing, of compassion, of loving, that was not there when you were trapped in mental concepts. You are that depth.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
A person once asked me in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: “Tell me, when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?” We must always consider the person.
