The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then turns into a nightmare.

The future never comes. Life is always now.

Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness

One could say that everybody in this world has a spiritual teacher. For most people, their losses and disasters represent the teacher; their suffering is the teacher.

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

We can't escape from the world anymore; we can't escape from the mind. We need to enter surrender while we are in the world. That seems to be the path that is effective in the world that we live in now.

You have to be still for a moment to even notice that there is silence outside.