Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It's an openness to whatever is happening.

Whenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience again, and you’ve squeezed all the value out of your meditation.

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.

The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be free.'

Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.

Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don't expect it to be easy or even noticed.

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