To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history, their story. We confuse knowing about with a deeper knowing that is non-conceptual. Knowing about and knowing are totally different modalities. One is concerned with form, the other with the formless. One operates through thought, the other through stillness.

Life wants to support you. But first you need to be open to life.

Pain is the fuel that lights the flame of our enlightenment

You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.

The moment you realize you are not present, you are present.

The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the easy way is hard.

How many situations can be resolved with less thinking?