The place that I love most is the stillness. It's not that the stillness is lost when I talk or when I teach because the words arise out of the stillness. But when people leave me, there is only the stillness left. And I love that so much.

The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess? You are responsible for your inner space; nobody else is, just as you are responsible for the planet. As within, so without: If humans clear inner pollution, then they will also cease to create outer pollution.

Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?

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

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.