Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing ….

Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness.

What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, inc….

There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious..

Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you ar….

The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things….

One doesn't stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away ….

We must leave the entire collection of conditioned thought behind and let ourselves be led by the inner thread of silence into the unknown, beyond wh….

Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems f….

Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It's an op….

One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying... If you want to see what you truly are, open the wi….

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

Question your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into….

The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That's part of true maturity, and ….

We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world..

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

Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point..

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

If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. I….

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, sincere and ….

Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time..