“Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.”

Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.

The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem.

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.

Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

I don’t want to hide. Not from you.

Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to find out where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited by the Constitution?

Baby girl, don’t hide your scars. They show you fought, and survived.

The dark night of the soul is a journey into light, a journey from your darkness into the strength and hidden resources of your soul.

The right one for you will move mountains to be with you – he won’t hide behind them.

Humanity, take a good look at yourself. Inside, you’ve got heaven and earth, and all of creation. You’re a world – everything is hidden in you.

Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.

Is it still a game if no one knows your hiding? – hide and seek.