Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed.

If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the quality of your consciousness? Your degree of presence. So the only place where true change can occur and where the past can be dissolved is the Now.

The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.

You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.

The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.