Many adults play roles when they speak to young children. They use silly words and sounds. They talk down to the child. They don't treat the child as an equal. The fact that you temporarily know more, or you're bigger does not mean the child is not your equal.

The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

Some people are called upon to do great things externally in this world by creating some new structure that reflects their awakening consciousness. Other people are not called to go out into the world and create great big things externally. Their purpose is to let consciousness flow into whatever they do - to do everything in a sacred manner.

Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the head.

You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe.

Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.

The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.