True change happens within not without

Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action.

There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully accept that you do not know, you give up struggling to find answers with the limited thinking mind. That is when the greater intelligence can operate though you. Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with. Maybe, I thought, only one of them is real.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

When life takes away the forms that you thought were the foundation of your life, what's left? The life that needs no foundation - that is the foundation. The formless. The essence.

Allow your dog to take you for a walk every day. It's good for the body and it's good for the soul.