Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.

I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness.

Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

The mess of the human condition is that fundamental trust has not yet been realized. The true value of profound spiritual experience lies in the discovery of that fundamental trust.

The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly.

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.

You’re dangerous, ” he says.“Why?”“Because you make me believe in the impossible

I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.

If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Atheism has no room for human rights.

There is going to be a lot asked of me over the next few weeks but I am getting more experience now and learning all the time.

Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.