The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It's never outside.

The Truth is far more all-encompassing than the mind could ever comprehend. No thought can encapsulate the Truth. At best, it can point to it. For example, it can say: "All things are intrinsically one (The Pearl of Great Price)." That is a pointer, not an explanation. Understanding these words means feeling deep within you the truth to which they point.

Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender.

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

Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable.

Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.

When there's a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence.