Many people don't realise until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are.

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

Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the eternal nature of all life and the illusion of all pain. Then let your peace flow into whatever you do, and you will be working on the levels of effect and cause simultaneously.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.

The world is in such a mess because of the continuous conflict that arises between human beings - not only between individuals but between tribes and nations and this group and that group and so on. But change can come in only when people start with themselves.

Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is.