What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.

The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?

Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can't be taken away.

The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind ... it always comes as a gift of grace. Inquiry clears away misperceptions and illusions, making one available to the movements of grace.

Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.

Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.

If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body feels puffed up, confident. But when you realize it’s all stories, there can be a vast waking up out of the mind, out of the dream. You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.