It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily.

If you could stand back far enough and watch the whole process you'd see you are a totally determined being.

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.

You experience that you are cut off by being in your mind, and there is a quality that is starving in an individual that is locked in their mind. So when you move to another plane of consciousness which is no longer controlled by your intellect, which is really the sub-system and you move into the meta-system, what you feel at that moment is... you are the universe, you feel merged with it, you feel thick with the moment, and that richness is so fulfilling.

Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions.

Pain is the mind. It's the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind.

Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.