34 Quotes by Stephen Cope

8. And finally, of course, the very central teaching of the Gita: “Let go of the outcome.” Let go of any clinging to how this all comes out. You cannot measure your actions at this point by the conventional wisdom about success and failure.

Gandhi insisted upon returning love for hatred and respect for contempt.

If you bring forth what is within you it will save you. Yes. But this saving is not just for you. It is for the common good.

The goal of human life,” says Ramakrishna, “is to meet God face to face.” But the magic is this: if we look deeply into the face of all created things, we will find God. Therefore, savor the world, the body. Open it, explore it, look into it. Worship it.

1. First of all, “ask for guidance.” As it turns out, this is remarkably important, and it’s something most of us almost always forget to do. It seems that there is something about actually asking that jump-starts a process. And sometimes asking repeatedly is required. Even begging.

Frost’s early years were spent finding out who he was. But his later years were spent increasingly being who he was on purpose. As he himself said, the story of his life is the story of someone becoming more and more himself. He later wrote: They would not find me changed from him they knew – Only more sure of all I thought was true.

Self begins to reveal its nature. In the depths of meditation, we begin to recognize again that we are One with Brahman – that we are that wave that is nonseparate from the sea. Memory is restored!