Some people are stuck in tedious things, like their jobs, and they are bored. Other people experience one stressful thing after another.

Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.

Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the head.

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

When you continuously know and sense yourself as the space of consciousness rather than what appears in consciousness - sense perceptions, thoughts, emotions - then it can be said that you are enlightened... except that you wouldn't think or speak of yourself as 'enlightened', because that would instantly create another mind-based conceptual identity and so it would be the end of 'your' enlightenment.