Then, if action is possible or necessary, you take action or rather right action happens through you. Right action is action that is appropriate to the whole. When the action is accomplished, the alert, spacious stillness remains.

"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.

Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want what you've got, and you want what you haven't got. With every kind of waiting, you unconsciously create inner conflict between your here and now, where you don't want to be, and the projected future, where you want to be. This greatly reduces the quality of your life by making you lose the present.

Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.

For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.

The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the easy way is hard.

The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words.