Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.

As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

Every spiritual teaching points to the possibility of the end of suffering - Now. It is true that most teachers have had to go through the "Dark Night of the Soul," although for one or two it was very, very quick.

Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.

Loss is very painful, because any kind of loss leaves a hole in the fabric of one's existence.

Some people thought I was crazy to have let go of all the worldly things I had "achieved." They didn't understand that I didn't want or need any of that anymore.

Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth.