“The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.”

Radiantly nothing. Absolutely and eternally zero. Emptiness that is awake. Emptiness that is full. Emptiness that is everything.

When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom, you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy.

Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.

We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.

True love has nothing to do with liking someone, agreeing with him or her or being compatible. It is a love of unity, a love of seeing God wearing all the masks, and recognising itself in them all..

As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.

If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.

The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened. Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach,

Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine.

Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.

When the eternal and the human meet, that’s where love is born — not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.

Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion.

You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.

You must choose between your attachments and happiness.

You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.

Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.

The Republicans handing over a crippling economy to the Democrats and immediately blaming them for it will never get old.

In a society hooked on immediate gratification, it’s hard to remember that each of us is on our own timeline.

Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.

When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.

Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.

A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.