Enlightenment is a destructive process.

If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.

There's a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.

True love has nothing to do with liking someone, agreeing with him or her or being compatible. It is a love of unity, a love of seeing God wearing all the masks, and recognising itself in them all. With this love you can feel the walls of opposition come down naturally in the acknowledgement of deep connection. Not only do the walls of opposition fall, but love is felt for every human being and for life itself.

Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn't exist?

The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be free.'

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.