Who you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn't make any difference to who you truly are.

We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

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.

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.

Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It's all the same trip.

I like to look at a tree and see that it's love. Don't you?

I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.