So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it.

You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.

If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.

As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.

A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.