If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment

There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real.

I've received more and more emails from teachers saying that they are beginning to teach presence in their classroom without necessarily calling it that or calling it anything, not as part of the official curriculum. It's like an underground movement not yet officially recognized by the educational authorities - at least not as far as I know!

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.

Once bliss becomes normal it's no longer bliss, it's just peace.