The moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body's identification.

I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.

You are what exists before all stories.

Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.

The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.

If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.