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

Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. (109)

— Jean-Yves Leloup

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

— Jean-Yves Leloup

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

— Jean-Yves Leloup

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

— Jean-Yves Leloup

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

— Jean-Yves Leloup

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

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

[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

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