If you want to see how enlightened you are, go spend a week with your family.

I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am.

Science and religion both teach that we are all interconnected, and thus interdependent. And at the very core, we are all One. But how do we live as if we know this?

The suffering is in the mind. The mind. In the mind. Witness it. From your spiritual heart.

I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is not independent of everybody else. Then I am arriving at that circle where one works on oneself as a gift to other people so that one doesn't create more suffering. I help people as a work on myself and I work on myself to help people.

Each person tells you who they think they are, and who they think you are.

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