Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.

"My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept what lies in between."

The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen and if you're ready to be challenged, there's one thing that you can do, but no one can help you. What is this most important thing of all? It's called self-observation.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990