"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.

If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?

Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.

God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within.

Forgive yourself for not being at peace.

Stress is extremely harmful to the body.

You will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present.

Become friendly with the present moment, because if you do not become friendly with the present moment you cannot become friendly with life.

The animals certainly like to be close to humans, especially as humans go through the shift in consciousness.

Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want what you've got, and you want what you haven't got. With every kind of waiting, you unconsciously create inner conflict between your here and now, where you don't want to be, and the projected future, where you want to be. This greatly reduces the quality of your life by making you lose the present.

Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the eternal nature of all life and the illusion of all pain. Then let your peace flow into whatever you do, and you will be working on the levels of effect and cause simultaneously.

When you continuously know and sense yourself as the space of consciousness rather than what appears in consciousness - sense perceptions, thoughts, emotions - then it can be said that you are enlightened... except that you wouldn't think or speak of yourself as 'enlightened', because that would instantly create another mind-based conceptual identity and so it would be the end of 'your' enlightenment.

Emotions arise in the place where your mind and body meet.

Enthusiasm is intensified enjoyment of what you are doing.

The human condition: lost in thought.

Feeling will get you closer to the truth of who you are than thinking. I cannot tell you anything that deep within you don't already know. When you have reached a certain stage of inner connectedness, you recognize the truth when you hear it. If you haven't reached that stage yet, the practice of body awareness will bring about the deepening that is necessary.

People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images.

Whenever you meet anybody, it is a holy encounter. The primary event is the energy field of presence between you and the other human being that arises. You enjoy it. There is deep joy in the meeting.

Practice presence -- embrace the place where life happens.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change. The Roman philosopher Tacitus rightly observed that 'the desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.' If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into aliveness, alertness and creativity.

The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence.

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.