Trust yourself. At the root, at the core, there is pure sanity, pure openness. Don’t trust what you have been taught, what you think, what you believe, what you hope. Deeper than that, trust the silence of your being.

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

What ever we embrace eventually reveals the place we have been seeking.

In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized.

Finally all that is trustworthy is this immeasurable silent awareness that is the truth of who you are, that is love.

When you are free enough to stop searching for freedom, you recognize that freedom is always here, it's your nature as timeless presence. That doesn't mean the circumstances are always free, of course.

I'm a student of history and know that civilizations get lost - they are born and die - and so I recognize the tender mortality of our civilization. I'm not saying I'm separate from the despair of that, but I'm not controlled by the despair of that.