When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the world.

In fact, people think you have to be stressed to be successful. They think if you are not stressed, something is wrong with you.

The difference between you, if you consider yourself not enlightened, and an enlightened master is not that the enlightened master has more knowledge. University professors have knowledge, and many enlightened masters have very little knowledge. Jesus probably had less knowledge than any university professor alive today in terms of raw information. Even a relatively uneducated person has more information than Jesus or Buddha ever had about things, such as political things and so on.

If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me

To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.

If the thought of lack -whether it be money, recognition, or love has become part of who you think you are, you will always experience lack. Rather than acknowledge the good that is already in your life, all you see is lack.

The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting.