“This one question-‘What do I know for certain?’-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it’s meant to.”

If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.

The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?

If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn’t that what silence is? It’s a listening, a deep wordless listening.

The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.

Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present.

In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.

Whatever you want, be it. If you want connection, it’s because you are connection. Be what you want, and then it happens all around you. If you want love, be it.

It’s wearing spiritual clothing and spiritual concepts, but it is really no different than a drunk in the gutter who doesn’t want to feel the pain anymore.

An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.

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.

Everything I do is deeply rooted in my faith and especially in Jesus Christ.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

The end of the First World War had thrown Germany’s youth into great turmoil. The reins of power had fallen from the hands of a deeply disillusioned older generation, and the younger ones drew together in larger and smaller groups to blaze new paths or, at least, to discover a new star to steer by.

I think it’s like everything else; one shouldn’t dig too deeply.

The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone.

The catalyst that converts any physical location – any environment if you will – into a place, is the process of experiencing deeply.

I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don’t believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.

If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.