If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

People believe that when they say "yes" to this moment, things won't change anymore. They're afraid that if they accept what is, whatever form this moment takes, they're going to be stuck forever in this moment that they don't like: this job or relationship or whatever situation they're in that they don't like. But this is not true.

The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.

It is quite possible even that the planet would no longer be able to sustain human life. Probably, the planet eventually would regenerate and produce some other life form. Consciousness would flow into some other life form and express itself through that, whatever that would be.

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.