Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role.

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.

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.

The most important healing - realizing who you are. The healing on the outer level is fine, but it's not the essence of healing.

Peace can be threatening because peace is the absence of problems and conflict. There is something, perhaps in the personal you, that does not want freedom or peace, or the absence of problems. There's something that wants the opposite.

The brain does not create consciousness, but conciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression.