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

When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

Man Made 'God' in his own image. The eternal, the infinate, the unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as 'my god' or 'our god'.

The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life.

A built-in reminder is the simple understanding that whenever any kind of unhappiness arises, you know you've lost the now. That's a built-in alarm clock. The moment you realize you've lost the now, come back to the now.

Once you see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and that unconscious pattern then comes to an end by itself. Awareness is the greatest agent for change.