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.

What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.

The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying. Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor.

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

The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it's so unimaginably immediate.

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?

Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.