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.

As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.

Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.

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

True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.

Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing - not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything. If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you. Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.

My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.