Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.

By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say that on this planet "normal" equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego.

Let go of thought, become still and alert, and don't try to understand or explain.

I am the hole on the flute that Gods breath flows through.

When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.

Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with which many people identify as "me." Life cracks open that shell, and once that crack is there, then we are reached more easily by spiritual teaching.

Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place.