We are what we think, having become what we thought.

Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence

We are looking for a way to feel more real, but we do not realize that to feel more real we have to push ourselves further into the unknown.

In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness. If we can put our minds into a place of surrender, we will have an easier time feeling the contours of the land. We do not have to break our way through as much as we have to find our way around the major obstacles. We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them.

Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.