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.

Since ancient times, spiritual masters of all traditions have pointed to the Now as the key to the spiritual dimension. Despite this, it seems to have remained a secret.

In fact, people think you have to be stressed to be successful. They think if you are not stressed, something is wrong with you.

The essence of every form is the deathless. Even the essence of a blade of grass is the deathless. And that's why the world of form is sacred.

Without perceiving things through the old filter of past conditioning and conceptualization, one can sense the universe is intensely alive. Even so-called inanimate objects - I often pick up little objects and just look at them and sense that they are alive. Physicists actually confirm that what we perceive as dead matter is not dead at all. Everything is an intensely alive energy field. That aliveness is only an aspect of the aliveness or life that I am.

The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.