Does it feed into my psychological patterns, my defense mechanisms, or does it take me beyond myself, make me more free, maybe more vulnerable, help me to participate more fully?

Nothing is excluded and the unique nature of every aspect of creation is celebrated. This is how oneness works when it is not just a concept but a living presence. Many patterns and attachments that we think are essential to life will fall away, just as our present structures of power will become redundant. And the wonder of this change is that it need not be gradual, because it belongs to the now. Any real change is always a miracle – it happens through the grace of God.

Every spiritual path leads the sincere seeker to the truth that can only be found within. The Sufi says that there are as many roads to God as there are human beings, “as many as the breaths of the children of men.” Because we are each individual and unique, the journey of discovering our real nature will be different for each of us. At the same time different spiritual paths are suited to different types of people.

There is a time to struggle to achieve what we want and a time to give up any desire, a time to be strong and a time to surrender one’s strength.

The ego tries to claim everything for itself, even subverting the soul’s longing for Truth into another illusion.

There are no shadows in which deceptions can be born, no dance of appearances:.

Love is the dominant force, and in its light there is no deception.

Life is an interdependent living organism that reflects the collective consciousness of humanity.

One might have practiced on a spiritual path for thirty years, or one might be walking through a dappled wood, or one might have just met a friend who will be a friend forever – suddenly love is present, arriving unexpectedly, as a tender feeling, a fragrance in the heart.

Those who wish to enter this path must accept that they can never explain either to themselves or to others the mysterious inner unfolding that is taking them home.