Occupation: Writer Birth: 1962
Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being, to that which is truly sane, rea….
Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time..
Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that anything that would tell you other….
As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive control, contractions, and identifications. Awareness nat….
You must want to know the truth more than you want to feel secure in order to fully awaken to the fact that you are nothing but Awakeness itself..
When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown deepens, your bound….
You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy..
We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit. Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize ….
The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling..
True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought..
Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly encounter the silent ….
Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom..
You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake..
If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen..
Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself..
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 remai….
The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you ….
In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial aware….
In liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the ver….
When someone tells you, 'I love you,' and then you feel, 'Oh, I must be worthy after all,' that's an illusion. That's not true. Or someone says, 'I h….
The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare..