The body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.

The everyday, familiar sense of self who lives in time, and that dimension which we've called presence, that is always here, that is still and quiet.

I live in California, where there's a lot of driving entailed. I'm usually going somewhere to be on time to meet someone so I'm necessarily engaged in time. And yet, how can I in that moment of driving my car, be aware of that which is not going anywhere?

When we are open to ourselves and our own experience, and therefore, open to the world, then the world can respond.

The American culture especially, and Western culture in general, urges us to not only become the best that we can be, but also win against the competition.

Wisdom and knowledge are two different things.

The great French Impressionist painter Renoir, right at the end of his very long life, said to a friend, "I am just now learning to paint." Renoir carried his gift with a humility which realized how much he still had to learn. Anyone who goes deeply into a field in life and realizes this, gains a sense of proportion that can only make you humble.