I never went out and said, "I want to do this." I never do that. I wait for things to come to me, either within or without, and I go along with it.

Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct your attention into the body. Is there any tension? Once you detect that there is a low level of unease, the background static, see in what way you are avoiding, resisting, or denying life-by denying the Now.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it.

Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Instead of being lost in your thinking, when you awaken you recognize yourself as the awareness behind it. Thinking then ceases to be a self-serving autonomous activity that takes possession of you and runs your life.

I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to arise out of the stillness. So the teaching and stillness are very closely connected. The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.