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.

When we're in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.

It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.

Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.

Nobody can give us what we really already are. Wouldn't it be terrible if somebody could give you what you really are? ...'cause if they could give it to you, they could take it away.

You are the doorway to the infinite.

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