Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it.

Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left?

Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".

It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child.

To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history, their story. We confuse knowing about with a deeper knowing that is non-conceptual. Knowing about and knowing are totally different modalities. One is concerned with form, the other with the formless. One operates through thought, the other through stillness.

In fact, people think you have to be stressed to be successful. They think if you are not stressed, something is wrong with you.

To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.