Ever get the feeling the system is sitting on you and you can't breathe?

Psychotherapy sanctions selfishness.

The present is what we are, and thereby, what already we are ceasing to be.

The work offers a new way of being in the world. (Actually a very old and largely forgotten way of being in the world.)

In walking, each step should spread open the foot upon the earth. The heart will then actively open to the space in front. If the feet are enclosed and constrained by shoes (no matter how wide fitting) then the heart becomes stunted.

Finding it difficult to breathe wearing a facemask? Consider it a breathing exercise. Activate the diaphragm and belly muscles to strongly suck the air through the fabric of the mask and into the lungs, then push the breath strongly out. Someone carefully observing should see the mask suck against your face on the in-breath and balloon away on the out-breath. Natural reverse breathing. Eventually you won't want to take it off.

Grace passes by, too modest to assert itself.

The most mysterious part of a teaching is what's known as a transmission of energy. It is a seed of spirit which the teacher plants inside the student. It can take years of regular exposure, or it can transmit in a glance. The only thing for sure is that it requires individual contact – you can't get it from a book or a video. Once planted the seed will start to grow, slowly, very slowly. Practice is simply what you do to tend and nurture and speed that growth: watering, feeding, weeding, debugging. You know you have received a transmission because it eats into every aspect of your being and your life. It cannot be escaped and only gets stronger with time. Attempts to ignore its imperatives will only produce problems later on. It has its own attendant problems of course: it becomes more and more demanding of time and energy, and there's always the risk that it will stretch your spirit to breaking point. But without a transmission there is nothing to take the place of ego, and spiritual work tends to just beat about the bush, missing the crucial point of it all, namely spirit.

Meditation maintains an even keel.

Heaven and Hell have nothing to do with an afterlife. They are versions of NOW. The difference between them is peace of mind. And peace of mind isn't something you can be given, once and for all. It's something you have to work for. And that work is ongoing – never ending.

Counteract weight with another force, so as to do what you wish at last, by means of a weak third force – that is what spirit is.

When we talk about conscience in our line of work we don't mean the superego but the spirit – the natural skeptic suspicious of all established order.

when reality is no longer organized and pacified by the fantasy screen, the experience of the real emerges in a way that is unique for each person

The work is a burrowing machine. Similar to science or art, which burrow into nature and culture. But we burrow into self because we know that everything we perceive of nature and culture is already tainted by self. This is the sense in which our work is religious.

A body is not born until it has danced.

The work must be religious. It must have as it's long-term goal the dismantling of the self.

Science and art take the self as a given. They offer reflections of the dominance of self. They may produce glimpses of truth but offer no path to a living truth, to living a truth.