Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger

Pick up any history book, and I suggest you begin with studying the 20th century, and you will find that a large part of the history of our species has all the characteristics we would normally associate with a nightmare or an insane hallucination.

When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.

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 way I feel is that there is a balance in my life between being alone and interacting with people, between Being and doing.

Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.

"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no spiritual teacher left.