An emotion is your body's reaction to your mind.

Your primary purpose is to enable consciousness to flow into what you do. The secondary purpose is whatever you want to achieve through the doing.

For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.

True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.

You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!

So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.

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