"You know son, pain is the greatest gift God could give his child, because it is pain that opens the door to compassion and love; and it is only compassion and love for all of creation that opens the doors of paradise and God consciousness. If you have been in pain, you understand and sympathize with the pain of others. It makes you more open to the peculiar behaviour and weaknes of others, as when in pain, you too have misbehaved or thought of misbehaving or hurting others or in a moment of weakness done things you shouldn't have. So you become less judgemental. More open. Pain makes you closer to all beings and God Himself. Pain makes you gentler and more humane to the tears and sorrow of others; and also allows you to appreciate good times, good people and real companionship. Pain of body, mind or heart, means that land is fertile for God to begin cultivating on your soul, my son. But if you let pain make you bitter, negative, mean, vindictive... Ah son, you have lost the greatest opportunity to walk in the shadow of God. But if you allow pain to harvest the good in you my child, then the kingdom of heaven is yours; not only when you exhale your last and leave your physical frame, but even when you live and with every breath you take while you live. The cross will remain, but your shoulders will get more strength. The whip will lash on your body but the balm of God will not allow pain to touch you. The kingdom of heaven is filled with wonders son; the greatest wonder of all, is to convert pain to God consciousness..."
"The journey is as important as the destination and very often one spends more time on the journey than at the destination; thus it makes more sense to enjoy the journey as much as is humanly possible".
(I have made some changes in the tense. I hope the auther of this book forgives me for that)
"People drive too fast, are too preoccupied while they drive or they do not care. It applies to the way most people drive their lives too. Too fast, without enough thought and with so little compassion".
"Don't worry. There is nothing to be ashamed of, if you have given your best to whatever you are doing, son. Only mankind is interested in results. Nature only wants to know your intentions. A dog just wags its tail happily. It is not bothered about whether its tail has wagged with finesses or whether it looks funny. It only knows how to love its master. It gives its best. It may make a mess of things regularly but then you don't mind. Why? Because you know the dog's heart is in the place. It is giving its best to you. The same way nature and God don't judge you by your performance or your results. They just want to know whether your intentions are proper, your heart is in the right place and you are giving your best to whatever you are doing. Everything else is just pure statistics".
"Why you did-what you did, that was more important than, 'what came about what you did' that really matters to the heaven's above. That the Angels heard the purity in the prayer rather than the prayer itself or the fancy words mouthed; and that work done intelligently was far superior to tremendous hard work done without much thought but the intention of the labour was way far above intelligence, effort or results".
"Success is a very complex term. What could be success for one, could mean failure for another. Take creation itself. For so many it is a roaring success. And for so many, it is an unmitigated failure".
