Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.

Teaching a practice can also be a hindrance if it becomes one's identity. To be a spiritual teacher is a temporary function. I'm a spiritual teacher when somebody comes to me and some teaching happens, but the moment they leave I'm no longer a spiritual teacher. If I carry the identity of spiritual teacher, it will cause suffering.

The place that I love most is the stillness. It's not that the stillness is lost when I talk or when I teach because the words arise out of the stillness. But when people leave me, there is only the stillness left. And I love that so much.

Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces, which is what the thinking mind does.

Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.