We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.

Witness your thoughts. Your thoughts are attachments.

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

Watch how your mind judges. Judgment comes, in part, out of your own fear. You judge other people because you're not comfortable in your own being. By judging, you find out where you stand in relation to other people. The judging mind is very divisive. It separates. Separation closes your heart. If you close your heart to someone, you are perpetuating your suffering and theirs. Shifting out of judgment means learning to appreciate your predicament and their predicament with an open heart instead of judging. Then you can allow yourself and others to just be, without separation.

I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being.

As one individual changes, the system changes.

The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.