The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually infinite and connected with the whole in incomprehensible ways.

Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with which many people identify as "me." Life cracks open that shell, and once that crack is there, then we are reached more easily by spiritual teaching.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.

Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

Once you realize that a certain kind of food makes you sick, would you carry on eating that food and keep on asserting that it's okay to be sick?