Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don't realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are.

Complete surrender usually happens through living. Your very life is the ground where that happens. There may be a partial surrender and then there may be an opening, and then you may engage in spiritual practice.

You can't argue with what is.... Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.