You may wish that some parts of (your face) were different, but the actual fact is shown in the mirror. Now, can you look at your conditioning in a similar way?

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect, and space is divided for him into dimensions; time, into past, present, and future.

Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination.

Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not?

The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.

When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.