Life always is now, but the form the now takes changes continuously. Most people equate the form the now takes with the now itself, and so they believe there are many different moments.

Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time.

Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible.

The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.

Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootedness in Being transmits itself to you. Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in the conceptual reality of their mind are kept sane by living with an animal.

I had been anxious and depressed for years and suddenly I was deeply at peace.