I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

When you look back at your own life, you see ... the sufferings you went through, each time you would have avoided it if you possibly could. And yet, when you look at the depth of your character now, isn't a part of that a product of those experiences? Weren't those experiences part of what created the depth of your inner being?

We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.

After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don't have to change them. Things just change.

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.