When forms begin to crumble there is always an opportunity for great deepening. By deepening I mean the arising of who you are beyond form.

True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship. But true listening is a rare skill. Usually, the greater part of a person's attention is taken up by their thinking. At best, they may be evaluating your words or preparing the next thing to say. Or they may not be listening at all, lost in their own thoughts.

The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.

Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments.

The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.