Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.

Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?

In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.

Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping or pushing away. We must not believe them, but we must not run away from them either. We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.

Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if 'I'm good.' You don't find oak trees having existential crisis. 'I feel so rotten about myself. I don't produce as much acorns as the one next to me.'

You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.

You can't look at what's looking. You can't think about that which is prior to thought.