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

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.

As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.

The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.

Humans have been in the grip of pain for eons, ever since they fell from the state of grace, entered the realm of time and mind, and lost awareness of Being. At that point, they started to perceive themselves as meaningless fragments in an alien universe, unconnected to the Source and to each other.

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