... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.

What is commonly called 'falling in love' is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever.

Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.

The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life.

The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.