So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest of their lives.

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child.

And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.

Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. They pay more attention to that than to what the other person is saying, and none at all to what really matters: the Being of the other person underneath the words and the mind. Of course, you cannot feel someone else's Being except through your own. This is the beginning of the realization of oneness, which is love. At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is.

This, too, will pass.

Allow your dog to take you for a walk every day. It's good for the body and it's good for the soul.