A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined.

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

...the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy.

When I'm with people, I'm a spiritual teacher. That's the function, but it's not my identity. The moment I'm alone, my deepest joy is to benobody, to relinquish the function of a teacher. It's a temporary function.

People believe that when they say "yes" to this moment, things won't change anymore. They're afraid that if they accept what is, whatever form this moment takes, they're going to be stuck forever in this moment that they don't like: this job or relationship or whatever situation they're in that they don't like. But this is not true.

Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an end.

Sometimes people need to experience acute suffering before the thinking and the awareness of the consciousness separate. People then realize there is another dimension in them that is not thinking but the ability to be aware of thinking. It is not emotion but the ability to be aware of emotion.