Jean Yves Leloup Quotes

#1. The best religion or practice is the one that makes us better. (42)

Jean-Yves Leloup

#2. The depth of our compassion is proportional to the depth of our living. (65)

Jean-Yves Leloup

#3. I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.

Larry Page

#4. To be grounded in an attitude of compassion is to be capable of receiving and welcoming the suffering, which the other is giving us. This does not mean that we suffer for them, but that we offer them possibility of going beyond the separate self in which suffering is harbored. (59)

Jean-Yves Leloup

#5. What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all? (73)

Jean-Yves Leloup

#6. Did I think it was awesome? No. It wasn't awesome. It was the fucking best thing I'd ever felt, baby.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#7. I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.

Douglas Adams

#8. To help someone in need is not charity it is proper etiquette.

Robert Breault

#9. Sometimes the best answer to a question is another question. Is it not by asking questions that we stimulate each other to reach more deeply into our own source and, thereby, approach the Source, both together and in our different ways? (7)

Jean-Yves Leloup

#10. It is important never to separate love and knowledge, compassion and wisdom. A wisdom without compassion is closed upon itself and does not bear fruit. A compassion without wisdom is a madness and a cause of suffering.

Jean-Yves Leloup

#11. We are often unaware of how much we love the people around us. This is true for everyone. We may think that we love certain people, but we don't know how profoundly we love them.

Akhil Sharma

#12. [W]e need not become fixated upon our own suffering, whatever its origin. We offer it up, thus participating in the well-being of the universe. When we experience an illness or depression not as our own but as the universe's, we are one with all beings who experience this kind of suffering. (78)

Jean-Yves Leloup

#13. Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest and truest of words. (119)

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#14. Much blood has been spilled over words, and a great deal of it over the word 'God.' (125)

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#15. Awareness is a powerful catalyst for positive change.

Cheryl Richardson

#16. Quoting Father Seraphim:
Our life hangs only by a breath. It is the thread that links you to the Father, the Source, which brought you into being. Be conscious of this thread, and go where you will. (27)

Jean-Yves Leloup

#17. The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)

Jean-Yves Leloup

#18. The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)

Jean-Yves Leloup

#19. The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155)

Jean-Yves Leloup

#20. [C]hange your thinking, your interpretation of he world, change the way you see! To change the way you see is to change the world. (50)

Jean-Yves Leloup