Everything - a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being - is ultimately unknowable. This is because it has unfathomable depth. All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg. Underneath the surface appearance, everything is not only connected with everything else, but also with the Source of all life out of which it came. Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself.

Be present as the watcher of your mind - of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react.

I never went out and said, "I want to do this." I never do that. I wait for things to come to me, either within or without, and I go along with it.

The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.

Some people thought I was crazy to have let go of all the worldly things I had "achieved." They didn't understand that I didn't want or need any of that anymore.