Even the great scientists have reported that their creative break-throughs came at a time of mental quietude. The surprising result of a nationwide inquiry among America's most eminent mathematicians, including Einstein, to find out their working methods, was that thinking 'plays only a subordinate part in the brief, decisive phase of the creative act itself'.

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

A practice can be helpful, but didn't the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the other shore?

Get the inside right, and the outside will take care of itself.

If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too

All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.

Just as without silence there could be no sound, you would not exist without the vital formless dimension that is the essence of who you are.