As a child, a person builds up an egoic sense - the child has a name, has an "I," has a mind. But then, to awaken, a person needs to completely transcend that sense of ego.

Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.

The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

People look to the future for salvation, but the future never arrives.

The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn't mean not to think anymore, but simply not to be completely identified with thought, possessed by thought.

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

Whenever you are engaged in something and there is an outpouring of energy, you are in enthusiasm.