Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the head.

When there's a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence.

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.

So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems.

The moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent.

Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness.

There's something in human beings, not all human beings, that is ready for the change in consciousness. It needs to happen now if humanity is not to destroy itself and the planet.