So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?"

I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a reader.

It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie.

Without our stories, we are not only able to act clearly and fearlessly, we are also a friend, a listener. We are people living happy lives. We are appreciation and gratitude that have become as natural as breath itself. Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know and that we already have everything we need, right here now.

Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.

I like to say it was born out of laughter.

Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.