If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy. ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.

The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.

No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than this: one step, one breath, one moment... Now.

Watch the clouds. They will teach you about the world of form.

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.

The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting.

The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.