The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

Peace can be threatening because peace is the absence of problems and conflict. There is something, perhaps in the personal you, that does not want freedom or peace, or the absence of problems. There's something that wants the opposite.

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve.

If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy.

Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.

Presence remains even amidst worldly activities. Stillness is there even when you're doing something quickly, like rushing to answer the phone. Otherwise you would be condemned to moving in slow motion.