Very unconscious people experience their own ego through its reflection in others. When you realize that what you react to in others is also in you (and sometimes only in you), you begin to become aware of your own ego.

There is a wonderful ancient Sufi saying which I'm going to paraphrase slightly. It says, 'When the heart weeps for what it has lost,' in this case 'heart' means 'ego,' 'when the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit rejoices for what it has found.'

Stress means there is something wrong, and you are not aligned with life.

When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

[Visualisation] works most powerfully when you realize that it is already a reality on the unseen level. It's already there.

The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now.