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

Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger

Peace comes from being aligned with the present moment. Wherever you are, you feel that you are home—because you are home.

Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.

It is the stillness that will save and transform the world.

We can't escape from the world anymore; we can't escape from the mind. We need to enter surrender while we are in the world. That seems to be the path that is effective in the world that we live in now.

When you see around you the human form suffering or dissolving, you have empathy on the human level. You share the suffering because it has to do with the fleetingness of form. But if that is the only level that operates in you, you haven't gone beyond suffering.