If people are living their lives for security and comfort and pleasure, then mind's every waking moment will be plotting those things. That's how it stays identified - as a body, as a you.

If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.

When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.

Nothing can cost you someone you love. The only thing that can cost you your husband is if you believe a thought. That's how you move away from him. That's how the marriage ends. You are one with your husband until you believe the thought that he should look a certain way, he should give you something, he should be something other than what he is. That's how you divorce him. Right then and there you have lost your marriage.

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?"

Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?