- What good is it to live in a world where the idea of "God" is merely a convenience that suits people only when they need the idea for some kind of self gain?
- An unconscious interior dialog includes being told the reason why we are in conflict, along with the things we should do to end the conflict.
- Identification with a reaction is the same as passively consenting to the consciousness that creates the reaction.
- An unconscious interior dialog is listening to the guidance of the same guide that led you into trouble in the first place.
- Real solutions are revelations. False solutions are consolations and the avoidance of revelations.
- "Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there." -- Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207 - 1273)
- The timeless beauty that you suddenly see was already there waiting for you to find it.
- The majority of humanity's passion is for sensation of self, not for revelation of self.
- Music could not exist without the space and silence through which the sound of the notes travel.
- Strengthening our relationship with the silence that already exists includes seeing all of the interior noise and chaos. Slip gently into the silence by remembering it in the midst of the riot.
- Use the appearance of resistance to remember something higher than what the resistance tells you to remember.
- Adding more thoughts about how to calm the waters of your mind (end the disturbance) only serves to upset the waters (escalate the disturbance).
- Trying to escape from anxiety is like pouring gasoline on a fire. Resistance is identification. The more resistance there is to what is unwanted, the more what is unwanted is strengthened.
- Trying to pursue unity and peace by getting rid of everything and everyone that bothers you is wrong. True unity and peace includes the understanding of everything and everyone that bothers you, including and especially yourself.