The best thing is for people not to get massages, go out to dinner, or even pray and meditate. Best to try to figure out what’s true and needful within the most ordinary of circumstances. Because in the end, the best thing in the world is the God-consciousness that is native in the individual, and when you go out there seeking after something, you tend to miss that.
“True love is not a complicated matter of trying to get across anything—just a simple matter of being across. The process of loving is not a difficult job of overcoming difference and separation; it is an easy confession of being identical to and inseparable from others. You are already what they are, and where they are. When you see that, loving becomes natural and easy. Almost irrepressible, actually.”
“If you try to be free for the purpose of being free, it takes a long time to get anywhere. Whereas, if you effort to be free for some social purpose—like delighting—progress is instant.
Likewise, if you love to demonstrate that you are loving, you get further from loving each day. Whereas, if you love to heal the beloved, you’re already there.
Those are the actual rules.”