Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".

Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.

You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware.

For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.

Whenever you are able, have a "look" inside yourself to see whether you are unconsciously creating conflict between the inner and the outer, between your external circumstances at that moment - where you are, who you are with, or what you are doing - and your thoughts and feelings. Can you feel how painful it is to internally stand in opposition to what is? When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.

Stress is extremely harmful to the body. Even mainstream medicine is recognizing how many diseases stress causes.