"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.

A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions.

Your primary purpose is to be here fully, and to be total in whatever you do so that the preciousness of the present moment does not become reduced to a means to an end. And there you have your life purpose. That's the very foundation of your life.

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Life wants to support you. But first you need to be open to life.