If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too

The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence.

In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being.

The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.

...the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy.

Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness.

The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in fact, given expression to the most basic error: to equate thinking with Being and identity with thinking. The compulsive thinker, which means almost everyone, lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict, a world that reflects the ever-increasing fragmentation of the mind.