You are awareness, disguised as a person.

When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously, even if it's just gratitude for breathing, gratitude for the aliveness that you feel in your body. Gratitude is there when you acknowledge the aliveness of the present moment.

Knowing yourself as the awareness behind the voice is freedom.

For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.

Underneath the world of sense perceptions and the world of mind activity, there is the vastness of being. There's a vast spaciousness. There's a vast stillness and there's a little ripple activity on the surface, which isn't separate, just like the ripples are not separate from the ocean.

Germany is a nation that created an enormous amount of suffering on the planet. The German people also themselves have suffered, because it always goes together.

The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now