“You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true.”

Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.

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.

You can’t look at what’s looking. You can’t think about that which is prior to thought.

Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?

You lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.

The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.

It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.

Whatever you resist, persists.

Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard not to notice it. And the way we remain blind to our frightful condition is through an obsessive and pathological denial of being.

You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.

How do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of “spiritual life” and “everyday life.” There is only life, undivided and whole.

At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.

Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.

What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.

There’s something more to life than what we see on the surface.

We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.