If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

You may have expected that enlightenment would come ZAP! instantaneous and permanent.This is unlikely.After the first ah ha expereince, it can be thougth of as a thinning of a layer of clouds.

If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.

It is possible that in the 21st Century the Earth will not be inhabited by humans. One of the great mystics of India, a very simple man up in the mountains, somebody once asked him about the future. He said there will come a time when you'll walk five miles and you may see a light and you'll be so happy to know another being exists.

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.

We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.