Most of us spend our lives convinced that there's something missing: "If only I had a bigger barbecue, more money, a bigger car, a different wife, a different.... If only I could upgrade somehow, then I would be okay."

There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?

They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition, whether fleeting or abiding, is called an awakening.

Once we meet our children, even for moments, in a place of "I don't know," of relinquished authority, we return to the realms of mystery and magic, where real connection becomes alive again.

My own awakening came in 1991 and my teacher then, in India, asked me to return to the West and to share this kind of inquiry.

However beautifully you play the violin, you can always play the violin even more beautifully again.

The Iago trance is a state that we've really come to accept as normal, even if we may not feel it to be natural.