Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

Many people are so imprisoned in their minds that the beauty of nature does not really exist for them. They might say, 'What a pretty flower,' but that's just a mechanical mental labeling. Because they are not still, not present, they don't truly see the flower, don't feel it's essence, it's holiness-just as they don't know themselves, don't feel their own essence, their own holiness.

The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now

It is the stillness that will save and transform the world.

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

Ultimately, every great endeavor consists of many little steps.

That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.