Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.

You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.

The future never comes. Life is always now.

One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.