When there's a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence.

Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.

Whatever you accept completely, you go beyond. If you fight it, you're stuck with it.

Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.

Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there.

Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion.

It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into people's lives. This is to say, their inner purpose would emerge only as their outer purpose collapsed and the shell of the ego would begin to crack open. The emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: being? What do you do with it?