"Stay present, stay conscious."

"Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous"

"Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?"

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

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

"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 one and the same."

"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 identify with your thoughts - continued indentification with the stream of thinking leads to a very serious dysfunction in ones sense of identity."

"The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions."

"You are awareness, disguised as a person."

"Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now."

"I would say about 80 to 90 percent of people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunction and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will know this to be true. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy."

"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 consuming."

"All problems are illusions of the mind."

"Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms."

"To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment."

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

"Power over others is weakness disguised as strength."

"I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process."

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

"If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small."

"Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain."

"Why Human should not look at the past?"

"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."

"Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, and all you are left with is the mental concept of God, which some people believe in and others deny. Even belief in God is only a poor substitute for the living reality of God manifesting every moment of your life."

"When you are aware that you are thinking, that awareness is not part of thinking. It is a different dimension of consciousness. It is that awareness that says "I AM"."

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

"In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love."

"I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them cats."

"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 usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over."

"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."

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

"Man made God in his own image."

"When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you're doing, you become stressed."

"Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free."

"People don't realize that now is all there ever is there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind."

"Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences."

"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."

"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."

"A new heaven is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness. And A New Earth is it's direct reflection in the physical realm."

"What you usually refer to when you say "I" is not who you are. By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords or the thought of "I" in your mind and whatever the "I" has identified with."

"The past has no power over the present moment."

"The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you."

"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 deep insights not only into the reality of space an time, but also into human nature, referred to as "an optical illusion of consciousness."

"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 have in the eyes of others."

"With stillness comes the benediction of Peace."

"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."

"Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river."

"The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace."

"Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness."

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