In the unawakened state you don't use thought, but thought uses you. You are, one could almost say, possessed by thought, which is the collective conditioning of the human mind that goes back many thousands of years. You don't see anything as it is, but distorted and reduced by mental labels, concepts, judgments, opinions and reactive patterns.

Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.

Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.

A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.

Humans are potentially capable of living in a state of consciousness compared to which normal wakefulness is like sleeping or dreaming.

The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.

The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.