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.

The thing that gives you power also traps you.

Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.

I had been anxious and depressed for years and suddenly I was deeply at peace.

The formless dimension of life is this moment. This moment is timeless and formless - the eternal itself.

Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left?

The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.