The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.

A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.

Present-moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and creative can come into this world except through that gap, that clear space of infinite possibility.

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

For a relationship to deepen, at some point the spiritual dimension needs to come in. You don't even need to be fully awakened for this to happen, but if it does happen it certainly means you are awakening.

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

When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world.