As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say that on this planet "normal" equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego.

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time.

Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness mean? It means you appreciate what is. You value, you give attention to, you honor whatever is here at this moment.

As the character changes in the movie, it rubs off on the viewer, so the viewer also goes through that change.

Sometimes people need to experience acute suffering before the thinking and the awareness of the consciousness separate. People then realize there is another dimension in them that is not thinking but the ability to be aware of thinking. It is not emotion but the ability to be aware of emotion.