“To end my pain fully, I have to go to another level beyond the rational mind. The key lies in understanding the basis of all pain, the illusion that we are separated from the source of all life. All our specific instances of hurt are only tiny instances of a single enormous hurt. As long as we remain at this level, we are dealing merely with the little branches and stems of a central root.”

“I feel like your gratitude practice and the the Dharma of gratitude that you've lived has also been so impactful in our relationship – it really contributes to that culture of compassion for each other because we have a generous lens to start the conversation from. And that's certainly what I would wish for all of us on this planet.”

“If you think about OM as all sound, and white as all colors, there's a harmonic wholeness that contains within it the polarity and the push and the pull and the dark and the light. And it's completely a form of arrogance for us to think we know better about how this is all supposed to go and who should be thinking what and how they should be acting. I think the first sound of harmony is the acknowledgement that I'm not positive that anybody should be acting, thinking or talking differently than they are.”

“What consciousness always is doing is offering love from one aspect of itself to another aspect of itself. And I want to be on that train. I want to be about that business because I can come up with ideas about what's right for me and what should I be doing with my life, but it's guesswork, it's hearsay and speculation. But if I line up with God, with the flow of love, then whatever it is that I'm doing is going to be moving in the direction of my highest good and the highest good for the situation and the highest good for the whole.”

In this short intro episode, Lisa explains the intention of this series and some of the recurring concepts and themes that will weave through the upcoming conversations.