The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I’m alone, there’s only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.
When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.
Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time.
When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is the love that redeems the world.
When you are trapped in a nightmare, your motivation to awaken will be so much greater than that of someone caught up in a relatively pleasant dream.
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‘yours,’ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
When I’m with people, I’m a spiritual teacher. That’s the function, but it’s not my identity. The moment I’m alone, my deepest joy is to benobody, to relinquish the function of a teacher. It’s a temporary function.
The whole world changes when there’s presence – sunlight everywhere – because you’re not separate from the world.
If your relationship to the present moment is not right – nothing can ever be right in the future – because when the future comes – it’s the present moment.
Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.
Ultimately what you do is secondary. But how you do it is primary.
You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.
Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.
Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.
Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” – and find that there is no death.
The essence of every form is the deathless. Even the essence of a blade of grass is the deathless. And that’s why the world of form is sacred.
You are not ‘in the now;’ you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That’s the equation.
Terrorism is an example of that extreme madness. People blow themselves up just to kill others. Unconscious reaction to terrorism is equal madness.
Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.
Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.