Some people say, the world can be so alive! It always is, you just do not know it because of the screen of your thinking. You notice it as you become more awake.

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

When there's a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence.

You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.

Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.

Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence.