Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

For a long time humans probably were in touch on a deeper level with the depths of their being, unconsciously so, the same way an animal or a tree is. Gradually, though, more and more of their identity went into the movement of thought. They identified more and more with the movement of thinking.

Some people get attached to their practice. They get good at it, but even becoming a good meditator can become a hindrance.

Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.

The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness. We need to go on to the next stage now as a matter of urgency; otherwise, we will be destroyed by the mind, which has grown into a monster.

Some people are stuck in tedious things, like their jobs, and they are bored. Other people experience one stressful thing after another.

It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.