Make sure your goals are dynamic, that is to say, point toward an activity that you are engaged in and through which you are connected to other human beings as well as to the whole. See yourself inspiring countless people with your work and enriching their lives. Feel yourself being an opening through which energy flows from the unmanifested Source of all life through you for the benefit of all.

"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.

Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.

The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

When you meet another human being, you meet the physical self, then you meet the psychological self that's behind it, which is their mental conditioning, their patterns of behavior and so on. And then, there is a deeper level to every human being that transcends all of that. I can only sense that in another human being and relate to another human being on that deeper level if I have gone deep enough within myself.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.