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

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.

When you say, 'I enjoy doing this or that', it is really a misperception. It makes it appear that the joy comes from what you do, but that is not the case. Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself.

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present.