Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.

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.

An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.

Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question. To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren't who you imagine yourself to be.

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?

Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping or pushing away. We must not believe them, but we must not run away from them either. We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.

We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.