Suffering occurs when something is taken for what it's not , rather than for what it is.

When asked Who I Am, the only answer possible is: I am the infinite, the vastness that is the substance of all things. I am no one and everyone, nothing and everything -- just as you are.

These eyes see the incredible benevolence of the universe, which is completely trustworthy in all respects. There is nothing to fear. Everything in each moment is so well taken care of - and always has been.

To see things for what they are is to see with the eyes of the vastness itself.

I moved down the street like a cloud of awareness following a body that seemed simultaneously familiar and foreign. There was an incomprehensible attachment to that body, although it no longer felt like mine. It continued to send out signals of its sensory perception, yet how or where those signals wwere being received was beyond comprehension

Collision with the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self