To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

You can enjoy the present moment, and you can be aligned with the doing. A different state of consciousness, then, is the foundation for what you do. Presence flows into what you do. Even though what you do may be the same, there is a fundamental difference: The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life.

A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.

Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for.

People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself because I never had children.

If you accept that a relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world.