Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

Many people see themselves as a problem that needs to be solved. They also habitually see the present moment as an obstacle that they need to overcome or get away from. With awareness, an inner sense of spaciousness arises that enables you to look at your own mind, which is to say the human mind, with a certain degree of detachment.

Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth.

It is very hard to tell when I started to be a spiritual teacher. There was a time when occasionally somebody would come and ask me questions. One could say at that point I became a spiritual teacher, although the term did not occur to me then.

When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.

Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.

Once you realize that a certain kind of food makes you sick, would you carry on eating that food and keep on asserting that it's okay to be sick?