Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.

This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.

So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.

In fact, the collective energy field of presence can be very helpful when people come together. It can give you an enormous boost.

You might say, 'What a dreadful day', without realizing that the cold, the wind, and the rain or whatever condition you react to are not dreadful. They are as they are. What is dreadful is your reaction, your inner resistance to it, and the emotion that is created by that resistance.

When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.

The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.

People look to the future for salvation, but the future never arrives.

With the egoic consciousness having become so dysfunctional, and now having at our disposal all these enormous technologies and scientific advances, if nothing changes the ego will use those things - as it already has been doing - and will amplify the technology that we now have. The scientific advances, to a large extent, will be used in the service of the ego, and they will become more and more destructive.

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

Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.

One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.

With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.

If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with. Maybe, I thought, only one of them is real.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

Do not pollute your beautiful, radiant Being nor the Earth with negativity. Do not give unhappiness in any form whatsoever a dwelling place inside you.

You create a good future by creating a good present.

Music is a wonderful way of getting in touch with the stillness within.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down.

The primary purpose of life is in being in the NOW.

Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be yourself more fully. All fear is the fear of losing something and thereby becoming diminished and being less. These two movements obscure the fact that Being cannot be given or taken away. Being in its fullness is already within you, Now.

Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does through you. There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One With Life. Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.