I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, My god, hes going to know all the things I dont want people to know. I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love.

What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all.

We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.

After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don't have to change them. Things just change.

As one individual changes, the system changes.