Stress is extremely harmful to the body.

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right !

Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger

You get there by realizing you are already there.

If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.

I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to arise out of the stillness. So the teaching and stillness are very closely connected. The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.