To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one.

Is insight dependent on a material process? Has insight a cause?

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.

A mind that is always comparing, always measuring, will always engender illusion. If I am measuring myself against you, who are clever, more intelligent, I am struggling to be like you and I am denying myself as I am. I am creating an illusion.

As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be.

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.