Become friendly with the present moment, because if you do not become friendly with the present moment you cannot become friendly with life.

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.

I never went out and said, "I want to do this." I never do that. I wait for things to come to me, either within or without, and I go along with it.

All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.

People look to the future for salvation, but the future never arrives.

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.