After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be found out there in worldly attainment and in the future. That's an important point for many people to reach. That sense of deep crisis-when the world as they have known it, and the sense of self that they have known that is identified with the world, become meaningless.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.

There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With Life.

Everything is as it is at any moment. There's no way of arguing, because you are arguing with reality - the isness of this moment. You can argue with it, but that's suffering.

"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.

It is not necessary to do things in a state of anxiety or anguish. That is not the way to be aligned with life.

When you meet another human being, you meet the physical self, then you meet the psychological self that's behind it, which is their mental conditioning, their patterns of behavior and so on. And then, there is a deeper level to every human being that transcends all of that. I can only sense that in another human being and relate to another human being on that deeper level if I have gone deep enough within myself.