Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.

Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.

A meditative mind is at ease because it's not trying to acquire anything.

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

This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don't let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.

The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.

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.