“When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are. When I have a thought about you, that’s something I’ve created. I’ve turned you into an idea.”

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.

It authenticates itself. Something inside us knows. This…is what has been sought for, longed for, looked for. This is it. Usually, it’s not what we expected.

True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go of itself. We don’t even let go. It lets go of itself.

People have been talking about multiverses as a philosophical idea for a long time. But the current incarnations in physics

For all the years I’d spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I

When you put off a task, you buy yourself time to engage in divergent thinking rather than foreclosing on one particular idea.

If you’re a guy, you have absolutely no idea what’s going on at any time in the relationship, ever.

The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is like a soul, and that every soul should have its own body.

Alan Menken took me to his studio and we went through his trunks of songs and put together an album of stuff that people and stuff that people don’t know. I’m very proud with the way it came out.

The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you’re dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that’s a concern no matter what kind of movie you’re dealing with.

Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.