Pick up any history book, and I suggest you begin with studying the 20th century, and you will find that a large part of the history of our species has all the characteristics we would normally associate with a nightmare or an insane hallucination.

A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

Nations consist of individuals. It is for every individual to bring in a different quality - the quality of awakened consciousness - into their lives.

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness.

The whole world changes when there's presence - sunlight everywhere - because you're not separate from the world.