Some people get attached to their practice. They get good at it, but even becoming a good meditator can become a hindrance.

When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something within you responds deeply to it, close your eyes for a moment and feel the essence of that love or that beauty within you, inseparable from who you are, your true nature. The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.

You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still.

Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. They pay more attention to that than to what the other person is saying, and none at all to what really matters: the Being of the other person underneath the words and the mind. Of course, you cannot feel someone else's Being except through your own. This is the beginning of the realization of oneness, which is love. At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is.

Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.

Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible.

Allow your dog to take you for a walk every day. It's good for the body and it's good for the soul.