Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at all cost, that needs the drama in order to assert its identity as the victorious character within that theatrical production? Can you feel there is something in you that would rather be right than at peace?

Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer.

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

If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

Just as without silence there could be no sound, you would not exist without the vital formless dimension that is the essence of who you are.

When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely out of identification with form and realizing the essence of who you are, or that the essence of anyone who is suffering or dying is beyond death.