I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to arise out of the stillness. So the teaching and stillness are very closely connected. The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.

Everything is as it is at any moment. There's no way of arguing, because you are arguing with reality - the isness of this moment. You can argue with it, but that's suffering.

Presence is the key to freedom, so you can only be free now.

This is the essence for every human being to realize that who they are, essentially, is far more than the physical body and is far more than the mental body, the psychological makeup, the psychological "me" body. Who they are is far deeper than that.