Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with which many people identify as "me." Life cracks open that shell, and once that crack is there, then we are reached more easily by spiritual teaching.

Every morning we awaken from sleep and from our dreams and enter the state we call wakefulness. A continuous stream of thoughts, most of them repetitive, characterizes the normal wakeful state.

In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form or psychological form. And when a form dissolves, always something shines through that had been obscured by the form. This is the formless One Life, the formless One Consciousness.

...there are two ways of being unhappy: One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want.

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.

When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.