Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects. Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence.

All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.

Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.

If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.

If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.

Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard not to notice it. And the way we remain blind to our frightful condition is through an obsessive and pathological denial of being -- as if some dreadful fate would overcome us if we were to face the pure light of truth and lay bare our fearful clinging to illusion.

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