For most people on the planet, consciousness can be equated with thought. They haven't experienced what it means to be conscious without thought, or they have only for very brief instants.

Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper.

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.

In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

Surrender comes when you no longer ask, 'Why is this happening to me?'

The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.