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

There is another side to death. Whether death happens through an act of violence to a large number of people or to an individual, whether death comes prematurely through illness or accident, or whether death comes through old age, death is always an opening. So a great opportunity comes whenever we face death.

Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.

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

The purpose of the world is for youto be lost in it, ultimately. The purpose of the world is for you to suffer, to create the suffering that seems to be what is needed for the awakening to happen.

You pick up the phone and you talk to somebody. There's a voice on the other end and you say what you have to say. This is how I perceive my life. I don't see myself as "Oh, I'm doing this great thing because I'm going to give this talk, now everybody's going to be transformed."

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.