My impact in the world does not come from my knowledge but from my presence.

The only real wealth you can carry through life and death is profoundness of experience.

When someone else can determine whether you are happy or unhappy, is it not the worst kind of slavery?  

If you break the shell of your personality, you will simply be presence – as life is, as the Divine is, just a Presence.  

Some spiritual teachers give you a nice new coat of paint, and suddenly you will look shiny and nice. Certain others scrape off even the primer beneath the paint. You came to the second kind.