Music creates a bridge for people to move out of thinking and into presence.

The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life.

I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “problems” because they are part of its identity. If no one will listen to my sad story, I can tell it to myself in my head, over and over, and feel sorry for myself, and so have an identity as someone who is being treated unfairly by life or other people, fate or God. It gives definition to my self-image, makes me into someone, and that is all that matters to the ego.

When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world.

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry

I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to arise out of the stillness. So the teaching and stillness are very closely connected. The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

Die before you die and find that there is no death.