Every practice at some point will become a hindrance. No practice can ever take you there, to freedom, to liberation. That's important to realize.

every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.

It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained.

Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.

I sometimes get a distorted view of how quickly humans are evolving, because I meet many people who are evolving beyond ego. Then I have to switch on the TV to realize, "Oh, no, it is not happening to everybody yet." But it is happening.

Movies really have replaced what traditionally were mythologies, that every culture had their mythological beliefs and their collective 'stories.' There is now the possibility for movies to embody that arising new state of consciousness.

The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance to events, that is to say, being at one with what happens. The story of the man whose comment was invariably a laconic "Maybe" illustrates the wisdom of nonjudgment, and the story of the ring points to the fact of impermanence which, when recognized, leads to nonattachment. Nonresistance, nonjudgement, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.