Terrorism is an example of that extreme madness. People blow themselves up just to kill others. Unconscious reaction to terrorism is equal madness.

The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are at peace.

Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?

On the deepest level, what I know for sure is that who I am, essentially, is consciousness and consciousness is timeless and it transcends the body; it transcends the psychological "me," the egoic self. Everybody can know themselves as consciousness.

The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.