Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.

At first you think that your sadhana Is a limited part of your life. In time you realize that Everything you do is part of your sadhana.

When you know how to listen everyone is the guru

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.

The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all.

Our culture's zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death.

A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And I said, "Yeah!" Because my guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.