It is the mind that weaves the dream of life, it convinces us that what we see is what is apparent and what is real, and that there's nothing else outside of our perception.

It is good to take a weekend and just you, or you and your dog, head out into the wilderness. Walk by yourself. Be by yourself. It will help you in your search for stillness and perfection.

The way we measure awareness is by how long you can stop thought. If you can't stop thought at all, then you are not powerful. You might be quite evolved, but you have no access to that evolution.

You need to have the humility to accept your limitations as long as they're there, and have the humility to accept their end when that time comes.

If you are losing power in your relationships, with others, then you have to try and remedy that, if you can't, you need to sever the relationship.

In this lifetime you can lose everything. Everything passes here. But you don't lose any spiritual knowledge that you have gained in this or any other lifetime. It is inside you.

They too wonder about the nature of existence, where they've come from and where they're going to and how much time they have.