All you can do for another person is be an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air, they could.

The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization.

Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free.

Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.

Fear of death only comes through the brittleness of the ego.

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.

We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine!