If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body feels puffed up, confident. But when you realize it’s all stories, there can be a vast waking up out of the mind, out of the dream. You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.

A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.

Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.

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

The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.

When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.

The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.