Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left?

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in fact, given expression to the most basic error: to equate thinking with Being and identity with thinking. The compulsive thinker, which means almost everyone, lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict, a world that reflects the ever-increasing fragmentation of the mind.

You can not have an argument with a fully conscious person.

Watch the clouds. They will teach you about the world of form.

Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments.

It's interesting that stepping out of thought was actually triggered by a thought.