Use whatever challenge comes into your life as a kind of fuel for the flame of consciousness. That is done through surrender to what is. Some people may need more of that than others. If you choose presence in your daily life you may not need the drastic challenges.

If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.

Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.

I usually congratulate people when they tell me, "I don't know who I am anymore".

The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane.

Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.

... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.