Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.

When you are trapped in a nightmare, your motivation to awaken will be so much greater than that of someone caught up in a relatively pleasant dream.

If the thought of lack -whether it be money, recognition, or love has become part of who you think you are, you will always experience lack. Rather than acknowledge the good that is already in your life, all you see is lack.

With the egoic consciousness having become so dysfunctional, and now having at our disposal all these enormous technologies and scientific advances, if nothing changes the ego will use those things - as it already has been doing - and will amplify the technology that we now have. The scientific advances, to a large extent, will be used in the service of the ego, and they will become more and more destructive.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it.

As long as we define ourselves in terms of our pain and our problems, we will never be free from them.

The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.