The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, such as mountain climbing, car racing, and so on, although they may not be aware of it, is that it forces them into the Now - that intensely alive state that is free of time, free of problems, free of thinking, free of the burden of the personality.

Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of identity.

The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality

Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the awakening process.

The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane.

It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained.