"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

"If you distilled out all the internal contents of your consciousness, including all thoughts and states of mind, you would again come to that same refined and simple state of being. This unprocessed sense of aliveness, both inside and out, is formless awareness."

Awakening: a paradigm shift of the heart - p. 148

"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

"Wisdom lives everything and avoids nothing."

Awakening: a paradigm shift of the heart - p. 104

"The person is a product of the mind, not the other way around, and the incessant mind chatter has to be maintained for the person to believe he or she is outside looking in. We know ourselves only by making mental noise, and if the mind gets quiet, this false dichotomy of "me" separate from "my" mental experience cannot be maintained.

The concept of "I" is another thought coming from the mind.

When we actually look inwardly with awareness to see this "I", we see only thought, emotion, and memory. There is no entity apart from these thoughts.

The thoughts of the brain and the sense of I are one and the same thing.

Over time these mental functions assumed themselves to be a person.

The person who was just created out of thought now became the person outside of the brain having the thought."

Awakening: a paradigm shift of the heart - p. 43-45

"Thought gives substance to all things but does not impart essence to anything. The essence of all things is formless awareness, and nothing exists except that the formless makes it so."

Awakening: a paradigm shift of the heart - p. 35

"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

"Once you fully experience the nature of your mind, you are a buddha. Awareness of your true nature is the stainless, single eye of wisdom.

The distinction between being enlightened and not being enlightened is whether you experience your nature fully or not. In seeing your nature, there is nothing to see, because there is nothing there."

Confusion Arises as Wisdom - p. 181

"Emptiness means that everything changes according to conditions."

Confusion Arises as Wisdom - p. 175