What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.

The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world.

Stress is extremely harmful to the body. Even mainstream medicine is recognizing how many diseases stress causes.

The way I feel is that there is a balance in my life between being alone and interacting with people, between Being and doing.

For some people, it's the beginning of an awakening when they hear or read, "You have a voice in your head that never stops talking. Have you noticed that?" And suddenly they become aware that the thoughts go through their heads, whereas before they were so identified with them that they were those thoughts.

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.