Can you use the rational mind to transcend itself?

It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

One cultivates spaciousness or awareness which allows you to acknowledge the emotions and see them as part of the human condition. Emotions are like subtle thought forms and they all arise in response to something outside yourself. They are all reactions. You cultivate a quietness in yourself that watches these emotions rising and falling and passing away.

Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents.

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

I think the game is to bear the unbearable with a giggle. With your heart breaking. And then do what you do.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.