There is no promise of love and light or visions of any kind - no angels, no devils. Nothing happens: it is absolutely boring. Sometimes you feel silly. One often asks the question, "Who is kidding whom? Am I on to something or not?" You are not on to something. Traveling the path means you get off everything, there is no place to perch. Sit and feel your breath, be with it.

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

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

The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

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.