The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are.

Every challenge is a disguised opportunity for salvation.

A person dies, or something you had identified with completely is gone. Your home goes up in flames. There is extreme pain at first. But whenever a form dissolves, which is called "death," what remains is an opening into emptiness.

Please open your eyes now, but keep attention in the inner energy field of the body as you look around the room. The inner body lies at the threshold between your form identity and your essence identity, your true nature. Never lose touch with it.

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

God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within.

Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence.