So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.

Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don't demand that the situation, or place, or person should make you happy, then actually the situation, place, or person is quite satisfying.

Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.

Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.

God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within.

I drink a glass of wine or two occasionally with dinner. 'You drink alcohol?!' Well, if my state of consciousness is so fragile that a glass of wine would upset it, then it can't be worth very much.

The moment you realize you are not present, you are present.