The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.

Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.

We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit. Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being, pure consciousness. This is actually the very substance of your own self and being.

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

Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul's being.

Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.

In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true. This does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow. It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one's deepest integrity.