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

Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.

There is profound responsibility in being Love... more than the mind could imagine or hold up under. If most human beings truly realized the impact that they have on the whole, they'd be crushed by the realization of it.

If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind. The truth lies beyond all forms of conceptual fundamentalism. What you are is the beyond—awake and present, here and now already. I am simply helping you to realize that.

Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.

What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.

You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.