Fear arises through identification with form, whether it be a material possession, a physical body, a social role, a self-image, a thought, or an emotion. It arises through unawareness of the formless inner dimension of consciousness or spirit, which is the essence of who you are. You are trapped in object consciousness, unaware of the dimension of inner space which alone is true freedom.

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

The Now is as it is because it cannot be otherwise. What Buddhists have always known, physicists now confirm: there are no isolated things or events. Underneath the surface appearance, all things are interconnected, are part of the totality of the cosmos that has brought about the form that this moment takes.

God is not a personality outside of you. What God is, is inextricably part of what you are. God is the dimension of depth within you.

Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

The whole world accepts that being stressed is the normal way to live.

Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.