An enlightened person or business is not concerned primarily with making money, because when you are concerned with making money you want the future more than the present. Whenever you want the future more than you want the present, true intelligence cannot flow into what you do, because it can do so only when you are totally aligned with the present moment.

[Visualisation] works most powerfully when you realize that it is already a reality on the unseen level. It's already there.

We could say that the totality, life wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate from life and so wants nothing for itself. It is one with what life wants. That's why it isn't worried or stressed. And, if it has to die prematurely, it dies with ease.

When someone becomes transparent, then something shines through that person that has nothing to do with the person or any of his or her personal history. What is required is becoming so transparent that the self or ego dissolves.

The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words.

Surrender comes when you no longer ask, 'Why is this happening to me?'

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.