Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n.

When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives

I love being free enough that I can be so intimate with people, and that people are free enough that we can all be intimate with each other!

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

Insanity is arguing with reality.

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.

An uncomfortable feeling is not an enemy. It's a gift that says, "Get honest; inquire." We reach out for alcohol, or television, or credit cards, so we can focus out there and not have to look at the feeling. And that's as it should be, because in our innocence we haven't known how. So now what we can do is reach out for a paper and a pencil, write thought down, and investigate.