Anyone who learns the true and hidden nature of the world will be terrified, Oddie, but there’s a safe harbor past the terror.

We are doing the most important possible work in the world when we open the door and reveal our creative nature. It is the work of the Universe itself.

It is the character of lived experience I want to explore, not the nature of man.

I’ve read about this in books, imagined it in my mind countless times since I’ve been here, but to actually witness it is something entirely different. I thought I was prepared, but nothing—no amount of...

His character is like an emerald—multifaceted and enhanced by inclusions.

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.

I’m silenced by his right hand cupping my chin and ear, his left hand flattening against my ribs as he gently pushes me back against the wall. I can feel the brick pressing into my...

What? Don’t you want a girl who can talk dirty to you?”His look only hardens. “No, Lucy. I’m serious. I won’t tolerate that from you.” He doesn’t look away and I feel that heat in...

Hatred wants to annihilate, but it annihilates by destroying, by making our awareness dull, by suppressing, by dividing. True Nature does not really annihilate, because something is not wiping out something else–there is no duality....

The outside world can only trigger or block your experience of your true nature. Each time something beautiful takes your breath away, that’s you experiencing yourself. Each time you fall in love with someone, that’s...

The quality of the thought that a person has got inside and sought from outside is likely to decide the quality of the people that has been brought into his life.

Memoir writing draws on all aspects of who we are, body, mind and soul. We are challenged to dig deep, to remember, and once again inhabit the skin of who we were and what we...

All the beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really designed to sustain the mystique of the party and prevent the true nature of present-day society from being perceived. Physical rebellion,...