The heat of a candle flame can’t compete with the heat of the sun… When you grasp this, then all things will be your teacher.

The present perception is the Truth, but the Truth is beyond this perception.

Only if you can forget the words and embody the meaning will you (have)... the ability to kill people's false selves and conditioned perceptions

things themselves are the true self and the true self itself is things

If where you stand is reality, then your actions have power... it is there, pure and naked and full of life.

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

All those who would communicate the message of the source must be able to kill a person's false personality without blinking an eye

What is important is to respect the root and extend it to the branches... Those who realize transcendence pass through words and phrases and make them come to life.

the Path is right where you stand... why would you need to search the pages for someone else's dead words?

When there is continuous awareness from mind-moment to mind-moment you will naturally meet the Source on all sides.

Once you discover the original, inherently complete and real mind, no matter what situation you meet, you will understand completely.

experience the absence of conditioned mind and observe that all phenomena are like dreams… enter into the uncontrived, uncluttered ocean of true nature.

Intellectually brilliant but shallow… they increase the thorns of arbitrary opinion as they show off their ability and understanding… a great pity!

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, ‘Go away, I'm looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away.

No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.”

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce [meaningful] work

If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government.