Occupation: Writer Birth: 1962
Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are..
Inherent in the impulse to be free, is insecurity. The impulse to be free comes from outside of the mind, and because of this, it makes the mind feel….
Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and as being.….
Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all..
A meditative mind is at ease because it's not trying to acquire anything..
Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness..
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….
A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself..
It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christian….
Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping or pushing away. ….
Whatever you resist, persists..
If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once..
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….
The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant..
You can't look at what's looking. You can't think about that which is prior to thought..
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 di….
Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all..
Many spiritual people are involved in a radical denial of what is happening. They want to transcend it, get rid of it, get out of it, get away from i….
Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads..
If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body feels puffed up, confident. B….
The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is..