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

I think the main way that somebody would know they're translucent is that their life has become more about the embodiment of Spirit than about acquisition, and that may be something that creeps up on you.

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 much you may have expressed love through your life, you can always express love more.

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

I think the myths are keeping us limited to, and tied to, what I would call the hyper-masculine tradition. All the major religions in the world 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.