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.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.

But it is important to realize we are all trapped in mental constructs, and so we separate ourselves from reality; the whole world loses its aliveness-or, rather, we lose our ability to sense that aliveness, the sacredness of nature. When we approach nature through the conceptualizing mind, we see a forest as a commodity, a concept. We no longer see it for what it truly is, but for what we want to use it as. It is reduced. This is how it becomes possible for humans to destroy the planet without realizing what they are doing.

Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.

Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

Consciousness is not personal. Human consciousness is just an expression of universal consciousness, which pervades the entire universe.