As soon as the mind and mind identification return; you're no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself, and you start playing games and roles again to get your ego needs met.

Knowing yourself as the awareness behind the voice is freedom.

Attention is the vital thing and there is no tension in attention. It just happens to be a similar word. It's not concentration or straining. Attention has the openness of a young child not yet dominated by the conceptual mind.

When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.

You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.

Consciousness is not personal. Human consciousness is just an expression of universal consciousness, which pervades the entire universe.

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.