Thoughts and words are thoughts and words, approximate descriptions but empty of real experience and knowledge. When our mind is filled with thoughts and words, it also is empty but with no space for real experiences and knowledge....
Birth is like nuclear fission, a powerful explosion. Love is like nuclear fusion, 3-4 times more powerful. In fission, our soul separates from being one with everything. In fusion, our soul reunites as one with everything....
Awaking from sleep is always amazing, a unique rebirth; unless we are not truly awakened. And so it is, from one moment to the next. From Sanskrit, Buddha means "awakened."...
Only listen to the opinions of others when we can think for ourselves. But we don't need the opinions of others when we can think for ourselves. Not listening to opinions of others will move us to think for ourselves....
We rarely see the light but as reflections of the mind. Thus, much of what we see is of the mind’s construction and we soon forget the light without which there is nothing to see. The fountainhead is the essence of everything. But we often forget the fountainhead when we look at it's manifestations downstream....
The truth is difficult to describe but easy to identify by the sound of laughter that trails it everywhere. The truth is what reveals the absurdity of all other thinking....
The mind is the flames; ever-changing, illuminating and destructive burning heat. The soul is the bush; unchangeable, eternal, supporting the flames but not transformed by the flames. The mind is wisdom, sometimes. The soul is love, forever....
"Sometimes I sit quietly and wonder why I'm not in a mental institution. Then I take a good look around at everyone and realize...
"The important thing is not what you have done in the past, it's what you are doing today."...
When work is work and not fun, something is not working. When work is something we do to make money, the purpose of work is the ends, money; not the means, the work itself. However, fun is hiding in the means. At work, people reveal how they think and what they take seriously. Often they're very funny, though not intentionally which is what makes them funny. That makes work fun, not work. If work is not fun, we have a lot of work to do on the job and on ourselves. If work is not fun in reality, then it can be fun in our memory which is what really matters....