I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

I think the game is to bear the unbearable with a giggle. With your heart breaking. And then do what you do.

Words engage our minds, but in the silence we hear the Presence of God.

Witness your thoughts. Your thoughts are attachments.

The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening.

I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!