A person dies, or something you had identified with completely is gone. Your home goes up in flames. There is extreme pain at first. But whenever a form dissolves, which is called "death," what remains is an opening into emptiness.

Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego.

The basis for true change is freedom from negativity. And that's what acceptance implies: no negativity about what is. And then you see what this moment requires: what is it that is required now so that life can express itself more fully?

When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.

When there's somebody there who is transparent enough so that the stillness comes through unhindered, there's a reciprocal movement in you because the presence of stillness suddenly recognizes itself.