Please open your eyes now, but keep attention in the inner energy field of the body as you look around the room. The inner body lies at the threshold between your form identity and your essence identity, your true nature. Never lose touch with it.

A huge number of people are going through the process of awakening, some in the early stages, some in later stages, and it's wonderful to see.

The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. It is a state of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible, something that, almost paradoxically, is essentially you and yet is much greater than you. It is finding your true nature beyond name and form.

You have to be still for a moment to even notice that there is silence outside.

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

Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them.

For years my life alternated between depression and acute anxiety. One night I woke up in a state of dread and intense fear, more intense than I had ever experienced before. Life seemed meaningless, barren, hostile. It became so unbearable that suddenly the thought came into my mind, I cannot live with myself any longer.