The witness is always in the here and now and it lives in each instant of living. To be in the witness is to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without clinging, without opinions.

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing.

When you are completely identified with your thinking mind you are totally separate from everything else in the universe.

In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?

I used to be afraid of things like strokes, but I've now discovered that the fear of the stroke is worse than the stroke itself.

The giving and receiving is the tricky thing. It's not the gift. It's what the heart says in giving the gift, and from my point of view, one doesn't give or receive - that's a role we have to play. But the gift - it's God's gift. I think that it's better to be souls than roles.

The root of compassion is not empathy; that is kindness. Kindness is great, but it is not the ultimate compassion. Ultimate compassion relieves the suffering that comes from separateness. The suffering that comes from separateness is relieved only when you are fully present with another person, not when you are separately present.