You can contemplate your thoughts and emotions, but you cannot contemplate the self.

The same energy manifests in a million different ways: as a stone, a tree, an animal, a human being, or in its subtlest form - the Divine.

If you learn to laugh at your own stupidity, all your rubbish will turn into manure very fast. And manure is good for growth.  

Bowing down to what seems powerful is natural. Bowing down to what seems weak and worthless - that's great. That's devotion.

In my experience, there is no past, there is no future. Everything simply is.