For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.

Space has no "existence." "To exist" literally means "to stand out." You cannot understand space because it doesn't stand out. Although in itself it has no existence, it enables everything else to exist. Silence has no existence either, nor does the unmanifested.

In fact every belief is an obstacle. It does not even require your realization, since you are already who you are. But without realization, who you are does not shine forth into this world. It remains in the unmanifested which is, of course, your true home. You are then like an apparently poor person who does not know he has a bank account with $100 million in it and so his wealth remains an unexpressed potential

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.