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.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.

What is God? The eternal one life underneath all the forms of life. What is love? To feel the presence of the one life deep within yourself and all creatures; to be it! Therefore, all love is the love of God.

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form or psychological form. And when a form dissolves, always something shines through that had been obscured by the form. This is the formless One Life, the formless One Consciousness.

Stress is wanting something to be the way it isn't.

You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life.

Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.

Life always is now. Life is inseparable from now.

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds. Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you.

For what you do to others, you do to yourself.

All problems are illusions of the mind.

The thing that gives you power also traps you.

There is no separation between being and the manifested world, between the manifested and the unmanifested. But the unmanifested is so much vaster, deeper, and greater than what happens in the manifested.

Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world.

The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.

Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens in service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say that on this planet "normal" equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego.

The consciousness of the animal begins to change when it interacts with a human who's gone beyond thinking. It's not only the animals assisting us; we are also assisting the animals.