Stress is wanting something to be the way it isn't.

Music is a wonderful way of getting in touch with the stillness within.

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.

When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

When you see around you the human form suffering or dissolving, you have empathy on the human level. You share the suffering because it has to do with the fleetingness of form. But if that is the only level that operates in you, you haven't gone beyond suffering.

Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.