If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

Those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!

The ego is a tool. You don't separate it. It's a tool for the spirit.

Who you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn't make any difference to who you truly are.

So many times each day we support each other informally without ever becoming 'helper' or 'helped.' Perhaps we're finding an article of clothing for a partner, cutting bread for one of the children, collecting the mail for the person at the next desk, holding the coat for someone at a restaurant.

What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.