You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

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

Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.

The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.

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

The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in fact, given expression to the most basic error: to equate thinking with Being and identity with thinking. The compulsive thinker, which means almost everyone, lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict, a world that reflects the ever-increasing fragmentation of the mind.