The word Buddha comes from the Sanskrit word Budh, meaning, to be awake. So Buddha is not a name and ultimately not a person, but a state of consciousness.

A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time.

When you say, 'I enjoy doing this or that', it is really a misperception. It makes it appear that the joy comes from what you do, but that is not the case. Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.

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

How’ is always more important that ‘what.’ See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.

Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.

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