Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be yourself more fully. All fear is the fear of losing something and thereby becoming diminished and being less. These two movements obscure the fact that Being cannot be given or taken away. Being in its fullness is already within you, Now.

Where ever you are, be there totally.

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.

When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?

If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.