You think that if I ask you to do a certain thing, my motivation is the same as what your father’s or mother’s would have been. So you have all these reactions and opinions,

Letting go of the old for something new to develop. AH: Exactly.

But after a while, you’d need me the way you used to need your mother for milk. You wouldn’t be able to do without me.

I prefer to try to understand whatever is there. I’m not building a religion saying, “Thou shalt not fill holes.”

If you really become clear about your relationship to the Work, that itself will do your work.

A warrior is always alert, always doing her best to be alert. You can’t be a warrior and indulge in being spaced out.

The struggle is, in a sense, a process of internal combustion.

“And you met me,” said Khidr, “because you had sufficient sincerity to desire Truth for its own sake, just for an instant. It was that sincerity, in that single instant, which made me answer your call.”

the teacher must have the ability to embody the essential qualities and therefore to be able to perceive them in the student.