When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it.

Everything flows with much greater ease when people live as one with the present moment.

True communication is communion-the realization of oneness, which is love.

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought

When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep, and now you are present, awake.

Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.