At the moment when there's nothing more to lose, the Ego breaks open - and then we see who we are behind who we thought we were.

I am embarrassed to admit what drew me to psychology. I didn't want to go to medical school. I was getting good grades in psychology and I was charismatic and people in the psychology department liked me. It was as low a level as that.

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

Finally you come to a point where you almost know it all. You are very wise. You are very pure... except for the fact that you may well have gotten caught in the last trap... the desire to know it all and still be you, "the knower." This is an impossibility. For all of the finite knowledge does not add up to the infinite. In order to take the final step, the knower must go. That is, you can only BE it all, but you can't know it all. The goal is non-dualistic - as long as there is a "knower" and "known" you are in dualism.

Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart.

The most exquisite paradox; as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.