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

By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.

The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.

Significant things often happen when you are present. Things come to you, and then you respond to what is required. The response very often comes without a premeditated idea of what you want. It is simply a response to the situation.

After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be found out there in worldly attainment and in the future. That's an important point for many people to reach. That sense of deep crisis-when the world as they have known it, and the sense of self that they have known that is identified with the world, become meaningless.

If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.