Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

We are destined not to go back to the level of animals that we've come from but to return to being by going beyond thinking.

When you say, 'I enjoy doing this or that', it is really a misperception. It makes it appear that the joy comes from what you do, but that is not the case. Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.

Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.

In fact, the collective energy field of presence can be very helpful when people come together. It can give you an enormous boost.

For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.