This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don’t let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.
Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we’re really available, really open.
Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.
A meditative mind is at ease because it’s not trying to acquire anything.
The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
You are the doorway to the infinite.
The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.
Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.
We must leave the entire collection of conditioned thought behind and let ourselves be led by the inner thread of silence into the unknown, beyond where all paths end, to that place where we go innocently or not at all, not once but continually.
Life itself is nothing but relationship.
It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.
If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind’s clothing with more sooty knowledge.
No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.
When someone says, ‘I love you,’ he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, ‘I hate you,’ she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.
Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
As soon as you believe that a label you’ve put on yourself is true, you’ve limited something that is literally limitless, you’ve limited who you are into nothing but a thought.
Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.
To be free of fear is to be full of Love.
There’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.