Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the awakening process.

Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems.

When you live as a friend of the now, many changes come into your life.

Without our fully realizing it, flowers would become for us an expression in form of that which is most high, most sacred, and ultimately formless within ourselves. Flowers, more fleeting, more ethereal, and more delicate than the plants out of which they emerged, would become like messengers from another realm, like a bridge between the world of physical forms and the formless.

The power of movies lies in the fact that it enables the viewer to enter the reality, to some extent, of the characters.