“The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean-like.”

Your mantra is thank you. Just keep saying thank you. Don’t explain. Don’t complain. Just say thank you. Say thank you to existence.

Out of the formless the forms appear.

Actually, being what you are is the simplest. What is difficult is to stop being what you are not.

If you are curious, you will learn. If you are desperate, you will discover.

When you don’t want to be interesting, you are free.

There is an intuitive knowing within us that we are eternal but this gets covered over with the noise we create while identifying with the impermanent.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

God can never be close. God can never be close because it would mean that there is some place where God is not. God is infinite. We cannot exist outside of the infinite. Therefore, God is our Reality.

To change the world is not your mission. To change yourself is not your duty. To awaken to your true nature is your opportunity.

The mind is like the wind. You’re trying to stop the wind, dressed as a kite. How are you going to do it?

Life is so much wiser and kinder than your mind imagines. Trust & Be Still.

Your heart is the light of this world. Don’t cover it with your mind.

In the spiritual journey, you cannot be a wine taster, you have to become a drunk.

Don’t be too quick to interpret the moment. Just keep quiet. My encouragement would always be: never think anything is against you, everything is blessing. Why should it be different? Just be quiet. Let it all work itself out.

Wanting something to make you happy is a sure way to be miserable.

Surrender is not a weakness it is strength.It takes tremendous strength to surrender life to the supreme – to the cosmic unfolding.

You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.

I would never wish to say that I’ve finally waved goodbye to any character, it’s just that the emphasis tends to shift.

My middle finger won’t go down, how do I wave?

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.