Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself. When you look at it or hold it & let it be without imposing a word of mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence.

You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still.

Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form" states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness.

"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.