Ego-generated emotions are derived from the mind’s identification with external factors which are, of course, all unstable and liable to change at any moment.

If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes...

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” — and find that there is no death.

There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges–the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the...

… there are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other.

You can only be in a state of non-reaction if you can recognize someone’s behavior as coming from the ego, as being an expression of the collective human dysfunction. When you realize it’s not personal,...

You realize your true identity as consciousness itself, rather than what consciousness has identified with. That’s the peace of God. The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am...

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.

What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date...

When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently.

In normal everyday usage, “I” embodies the primordial error, a misperception of who you are, an illusory sense of identity. This is the ego. The illusory sense of self is what Albert Einstein, who had...

Die before you die and find that there is no death.

All problems are illusions of the mind.

Somebody becomes an enemy if you personalize the unconsciousness that is the ego. Non-reaction is not weakness but strength. Another word for non-reaction is forgiveness. To forgive is to overlook, or rather to look through....

What keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn’t work. The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more and keep buying and...

The mind-identified state is severely dysfunctional.

I” has identified with.

every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn’t work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly...

The fundamental difference between an instinctive response and an emotion is this: An instinctive response is the body’s direct response to some external situation. An emotion, on the other hand, is the body’s response to...

See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain...

Note: The mind is a superb interment if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly — you...

What you react to in another you strengthen within yourself.

How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are. The ego’s sense of self-worth is in most cases bound up with the worth you...

How “spiritual” you are has nothing to do with what you believe, but everything to do with your state of consciousness.

To recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

Man made God in his own image…

Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

Some churches, sects, cults or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigidly identified with their mental positions as the followers of any political ideology that is closed to any alternative interpretation of reality.

Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every wave & ripple has a very short lived life – it is very fleeting Do not...

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be…

the ego likes to emphasize the ‘otherness’ of others

The more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the...

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with...

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

wrong believers” who not infrequently they saw themselves justified in the killing.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Sur un fond de ciel bleu azur, les rayons jaune orangé d’un soleil couchant peuvent, à certains mo-ments privilégiés, nous régaler d’un instant d’une telle beauté, que nous en restons momentanément ébahis, le regard fixe....

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are...

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don’t realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield. Some people become bitter or deeply resentful; others become compassionate, wise, and loving. Yielding means inner acceptance of what is.You are open to life.

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.

Those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remarkable and are the only ones who truly make a difference in this world.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.