We need to encourage an attitude of constant questioning, which is a genuine part of our potential as students. If students were required to drop their questions, that would create armies of zombies- rows of jellyfish...The questioning mind is absolutely necessary.

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

One day passes and another day comes along, and everything happens the same. But basically, we are so afraid of the brilliance coming at us, and the sharp experience of our life, that we can't even focus our eyes.

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

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

In the cocoon, there is no idea of light at all, until we experience some longing for openness, some longing for something other than the smell of our own sweat. When we examine that comfortable darkness - look at it, smell it, feel it - we find it is claustrophobic.

For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.