Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes.

...there are two ways of being unhappy: One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want.

Instead of being lost in your thinking, when you awaken you recognize yourself as the awareness behind it. Thinking then ceases to be a self-serving autonomous activity that takes possession of you and runs your life.

The ego always looks toward the next moment for some kind of fulfillment.

Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with which many people identify as "me." Life cracks open that shell, and once that crack is there, then we are reached more easily by spiritual teaching.

If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.

What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.