Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

The difference between a baby and adult is that a baby believes in everything while the adult doubts everything. Babies also only tell the truth until they learn what a lie is.

Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. It is so easy to see why this does not work. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order to make it “objective,” that is, separate from “I.

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.