The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.

Suffering brings your heart to bear. It gets you where you are!

We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the information as static, as noise.

When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't.

The interesting question is, how do you put yourself in a position so that you can allow ‘what is’ to be. The enemy turns out to be the creation of mind. Because when you are just in the moment, doing what you are doing, there is no fear. The fear is when you stand back to think about it. The fear is not in the actions. The fear is in the thought about the actions.

Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

When we practice dying, we are learning to identify less with Ego and more with Soul.

I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being.

All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.

What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.

External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.

If you could stand back far enough and watch the whole process you'd see you are a totally determined being.

If you feel a sense of social responsibility, first of all keep working on yourself. Being peaceful yourself is the first step if you want to live in a peaceful universe.

Without remaining open to change, we cannot remain open to life.

Watch how your mind judges. Judgment comes, in part, out of your own fear. You judge other people because you're not comfortable in your own being. By judging, you find out where you stand in relation to other people. The judging mind is very divisive. It separates. Separation closes your heart. If you close your heart to someone, you are perpetuating your suffering and theirs. Shifting out of judgment means learning to appreciate your predicament and their predicament with an open heart instead of judging. Then you can allow yourself and others to just be, without separation.

When you see the beloved all around you, everyone is family and everywhere is love.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

I like to look at a tree and see that it's love. Don't you?

When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

In meditation we can watch the itch instead of scratching it.

What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.

The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.

After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don't have to change them. Things just change.