“In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true.”

The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high.

Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.

Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.

This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn’t know where to find it.

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.

I feel like I’m a good actor, but I wouldn’t call myself a gifted actor.

I do feel that, generally, people will see me and go, “He knows where the good food is,” which is an awesome correlative. It’s an awesome simplification.

Go to bed.’ ‘Don’t you feel like we’re soul…’

I’ve been living in Portland for five months and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I probably won’t really know for years because that’s how it works right?

I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

I wanted to look different because I felt different

The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.

We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.