Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.

Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion.

Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.

The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in fact, given expression to the most basic error: to equate thinking with Being and identity with thinking. The compulsive thinker, which means almost everyone, lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict, a world that reflects the ever-increasing fragmentation of the mind.

Accept the present moment without judgement.

There is a wonderful ancient Sufi saying which I'm going to paraphrase slightly. It says, 'When the heart weeps for what it has lost,' in this case 'heart' means 'ego,' 'when the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit rejoices for what it has found.'