Our job as conscious humans is to bring the beauty and goodness of everything to full consciousness, to full delight, to full awareness.

In the last years, I've been reading the Eastern fathers, the older mystical writings, a rich, deep, and truly traditional Christianity which most Western Christians know almost nothing about. It is very mystical and prayer centered Christianity, with a strong social conscience.

Our culture is almost entirely prepared to not just help you create your false self, but to get very identified with it and attached to it. So, without some form of God experience, which teaches you who you are apart from that - we would say in the religious world, who you are "in" God, in the mind and heart of God - there's almost no way to get out of it.

If you depend on being emotionally inspired or newly motivated, you will need a new fix almost every day.

You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself.

The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.