You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you.

The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.

Most people don’t know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in ‘just being’. Allow nature to teach you stillness. When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Forgiveness is to offer no resistance to life — to allow life to live through you.

The more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not “yours,” not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go.

The moment you truly forgive, you have reclaimed your power from the mind.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly — you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

People don’t realize that now is all there ever is. There is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind - or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body.

Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.

You can always cope with the Now, but you can never cope with the future — nor do you have to. The answer, the strength, the right action or the resource will be there when you need it, not before, not after.

The human experience involves hate. Something Claudio once told me was what his mentor told him. " What is better? To be born good or to overcome your evil nature with great effort." I truly believe, that to really appreciate love, is to overcome the hate within you.