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?

The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.

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

You must want to know the truth more than you want to feel secure in order to fully awaken to the fact that you are nothing but Awakeness itself.

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

Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.

Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It's not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.