When you recognize the sacredness, the beauty, the incredible stillness and dignity in which a flower or a tree exists, you add something to the flower or the tree. Through your recognition, your awareness, nature too comes to know itself. It comes to know its own beauty and sacredness through you.

Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself.

Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth.

Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootedness in Being transmits itself to you. Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in the conceptual reality of their mind are kept sane by living with an animal.

Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.