When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is the honoring of small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind.

The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

The way I feel is that there is a balance in my life between being alone and interacting with people, between Being and doing.

For some people, it's the beginning of an awakening when they hear or read, "You have a voice in your head that never stops talking. Have you noticed that?" And suddenly they become aware that the thoughts go through their heads, whereas before they were so identified with them that they were those thoughts.