Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness

You are this universe experiencing itself, very briefly, as a human.

Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and the new, between mind identification and presence.

The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

You don't need to suffer anymore. You've suffered enough to take you to this point where you hear the words, "You don't need to suffer anymore," and you understand them. You recognize their truth and you then see that you do have a choice ­ that you can surrender to the suchness of now, which means every moment to relinquish resistance and if it still arises, to recognize it.

The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness. We need to go on to the next stage now as a matter of urgency; otherwise, we will be destroyed by the mind, which has grown into a monster.