When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all sorts of things. But nobody seems to appreciate this kind of natural beauty of ourselves. This is actually far more beautiful than flora and fauna, far more fantastic, far more painful and colorful and delightful.

The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.

Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.