"Thoughts are our attempt to estabilish companionship in an otherwise empty universe. Like hearing the echo bounce off canyon walls, we keep self-speaking to assure ourselves that we exist and others exist with us.

Form can never release us from this separation because by definition it must be distinct from everything else to remain as form. To live in form means we will be distant and alone, governed by time. We try to use words to reconnect to other objects, but in the end the words do little to cross the great divide."

Awakening: a paradigm shift of the heart - p. 32

"Form needs our investment of words to sustain it, silence slowly dissolves form back into the formless. There is nothing we need to do except be willing to see without words."

Awakening: a paradigm shift of the heart - p. 155

"Form is what you see, the objects of sight; formless awareness is what sees the objects, the seeing itself."

Awakening: a paradigm shift of the heart - p. 28

"Hear the sounds, smell the odors, and softly see the forms arising in this moment. Resist investing energy in thinking about what is sensed and hold the sensation just as it is, free of thought. Let awareness be expansive so there are no limitations. Now sense what holds all the shapes, sounds and sensations of this moment and feel the living moment itself."

Awakening: a paradigm shift of the heart - p. 34

"A mature relationship with life no longer looks for perfection within form.

If we become judgemental, we will find fault or praise, action will be set in motion, sides will be taken, wars will be fought, someone excluded and other included. Form is imperfect by definition, and manifestation will follow suit."

Stepping out of self-deception - p. 215