Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego.

Be alert as you watch a dog at play or at rest. Let the animal teach you to feel at home in the now, to celebrate life by being completely present. You just watch the tail ... with some dogs you just look at them - just a little look is enough - and their tail goes ...'Life is good! Life is good!' And they are not telling themselves a story of why life is good. It's a direct realization.

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.

...the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy.

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.

The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence.