Some people say it is hard to live in such a way, being completely one with the present moment. Of course, it is not hard. The opposite is hard. Not being one with life is hard, and that is how most people live.

You are not what happens in your life. You are the space in which it happens, which is consciousness itself.

This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some of it, however, is also happening within the existing churches and religious institutions wherever the members of those congregations do not identify with rigid and exclusive belief systems whose unconscious purpose is to foster a sense of separation on which the egoic mind structures depend for their survival.

When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.

When forms begin to crumble there is always an opportunity for great deepening. By deepening I mean the arising of who you are beyond form.

When there's a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence.

Peace is your priority, not saving the world. That follows that.