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.

If the individuals who make up a group have personal egos, and their identities lie in these egos, then their egoic identities will shift to the group. It might look as if they are losing their personal egos, but the ego simply shifts to the group.

If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.

Don't quote the Buddha. Be the Buddha.

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.