Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what this moment does not. When there is wanting in the mind, that moment feels incomplete. Wanting is seeing elsewhere. Completeness is being right here.

Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. There is nothing to do but be.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little.

Buddha nature, is like the sun which is always shining, always present, though often obscured. We are blocked from our natural light by the clouds of thought and longing and fear; the overcast of the conditioned mind; the hurricane of I am.