We are destined not to go back to the level of animals that we've come from but to return to being by going beyond thinking.

On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

Every spiritual teaching points to the possibility of the end of suffering - Now. It is true that most teachers have had to go through the "Dark Night of the Soul," although for one or two it was very, very quick.

To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present.

Some people when I speak of awareness of the "inner body" call it a technique. I would not call it a technique because it is too simple for that. When the oak tree feels its roots in the earth, its connectedness with the earth, it is not practicing a technique.

Stress is wanting something to be the way it isn't.

The only thing you ever have is now.