Resistance keeps you stuck. Surrender immediately opens you to the greater intelligence that is vaster than the human mind, and it can then express itself through you. So through surrender often you find circumstances changing.

Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible.

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.

There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully accept that you do not know, you give up struggling to find answers with the limited thinking mind. That is when the greater intelligence can operate though you. Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought