The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness.

There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself.

Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.

Above all, know that ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.

The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you're trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.

Being must be felt. It can't be thought.