The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.

The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

Facing facts is always empowering.

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.

For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.

By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords." (p. 28)