As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.

Peace comes from being aligned with the present moment. Wherever you are, you feel that you are home—because you are home.

When you awaken spiritually, in fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you realize there is a depth to your Being, a vibrantly alive stillness that is much vaster than thought. It is consciousness itself, of which the thinking mind is only a tiny aspect.

Humanity is reaching the end of the evolutionary stage of ego. The closer we get to the end, the more dysfunctional humanity becomes.

In any relationship, especially marriage, be as free of compulsive thinking as possible. In other words, the more space there is in the relationship - inner space - the more love there is because love arises out of the inner spaciousness.

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