Always work with the present moment, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.

... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

I sometimes get a distorted view of how quickly humans are evolving, because I meet many people who are evolving beyond ego. Then I have to switch on the TV to realize, "Oh, no, it is not happening to everybody yet." But it is happening.

The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually infinite and connected with the whole in incomprehensible ways.

So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest of their lives.

Nations consist of individuals. It is for every individual to bring in a different quality - the quality of awakened consciousness - into their lives.