The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the easy way is hard.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it.

The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much.

When there's a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence.

Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas. It is true that every dogma crumbles sooner or later, because reality will eventually disclose its falseness; however, unless the basic delusion of it is seen for what it is, it will be replaced by others.

In the world of form, everything changes and evolves. So, there was a certain evolution of the teaching. Different pointers came in, different stories, different approaches to the truth, which always is the same.

When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced by an alert stillness. You are fully conscious, yet the mind is not labeling this moment in any way... It is a shift from identification with form --the thought or the emotion-- to being and recognizing yourself as that which has no form -- spacious awareness.