The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it.

A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time.

True freedom is living as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience in this moment. This inner alignment with the Now is the end of suffering.

Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.

You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.