Fear can be used to get into your attention. Any way a person can get you to think of them, allows them to drain you.

The purpose of enlightenment is certainly not the teacher, nor is it you. It doesn't have a purpose. Enlightenment simply exists.

Letting go is the hardest thing. Everybody is so afraid. They're so afraid of eternity. They're so afraid of life. They're so afraid of what's on the other side of death. There is nothing but light. God is everywhere.

They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy.

Love was where I learned to go beyond myself, through the arts, through relationships, through sexuality.

Our sense of being worthwhile, our sense of being good, our sense of being anything must go - Final clearance sale.

When you go into samadhi, either salvikalpa or nirvikalpa, what happens is you erase, you loosen, the aggregates. You simplify them.