“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share
“The depth of our compassion is proportional to the depth of our living. (65)” — Jean-Yves Leloup Copy Share
“[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.… — Jean-Yves Leloup Copy Share
“Much blood has been spilled over words, and a great deal of it over the word ‘God.’ (125)” — Jean-Yves Leloup Copy Share
“It [speaking with words that bring about harmony] consists of speaking of what is good about people, instead of what is wrong with them.… — Jean-Yves Leloup Copy Share
“Sometimes the best answer to a question is another question. Is it not by asking questions that we stimulate each other to reach more… — Jean-Yves Leloup Copy Share
“To be grounded in an attitude of compassion is to be capable of receiving and welcoming the suffering, which the other is giving us.… — Jean-Yves Leloup Copy Share
“Quoting Father Seraphim: Our life hangs only by a breath. It is the thread that links you to the Father, the Source, which brought… — Jean-Yves Leloup Copy Share
“The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to… — Jean-Yves Leloup Copy Share
“In certain situations, manifesting anger is the right attitude; in others it is not the right thing to manifest because it will only add… — Jean-Yves Leloup Copy Share
“It is important never to separate love and knowledge, compassion and wisdom. A wisdom without compassion is closed upon itself and does not bear… — Jean-Yves Leloup Copy Share
“There are many greedy and clever human animals in this world, but few human beings. Authentic human beings are so rare that I would… — Jean-Yves Leloup Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest and truest… — Jean-Yves Leloup Copy Share
