“When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.”

Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.

One must be willing to stand alone – in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one’s conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.

Truth is quite literally the only thing that does exist. It is not hidden but in plain view, not lacking but abundantly present.

The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.

It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one’s deepest integrity.

What is really important you can’t understand with your mind.

Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.

When we really start to take a look at who we think we are… we start to see that while we may have various thoughts, beliefs, and identities, they do not individually or collectively tell us who we are.

As if some dreadful fate would overcome us if we were to face the pure light of truth and lay bare our fearful clinging to illusion.

The proof of the depth and embodiment of your realization will be seen in your love relationship. That’s where the proof is in the pudding. If it all collapses in your relationship, you have some work to do. And people do have a lot of difficulties in their relationships.

No matter what spiritual path you’ve walked or what teachings you’ve followed, they must lead you back to no path and no teaching. A true teaching is like a blazing fire that consumes itself.

You’ll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.

Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.

Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.

As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that’s unreality. Life doesn’t need to decide who’s right and who’s wrong. Life doesn’t need to know the “right” way to go because it’s going there anyway.

Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.

Nowadays, China is experiencing the detrimental effects of such decisions. Its citizens have no creativity.

This does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow.

We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.

The romantic stuff comes a lot easier when you’re experiencing true love. It feels better, it feels more natural to record love songs when you’re in love.