To be truly happy you must recognize who you are with nothing.

Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace.

Time is a very useful concept in terms of survival. It's extraordinary that we can delineate a day into segments so that we can actually look at those segments, examine them, and see what worked and what didn't' work. We get very attached to time because it's a power, this invention of time is very powerful, and we like power.

Safety is knowing that when this particular life form is finished, what it has served remains.

The word God, to me, is like the word enlightenment. It's become so corrupted by our ideas of what God is.

I could see that everything I had identified as really me, was not really me, but was just a pattern of strategies to avoid some kind of abyss or emptiness.

I don't mean to say that you shouldn't take care of your body, or want to keep it from dying. But it doesn't have the same hold as when you totally identify yourself as the body. To recognize the tenderness of mortality, the fragility of your life form and all life forms, including cosmic life forms, is to be humbled in a deep way that is actually enlivening.