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".

Get the inside right, and the outside will take care of itself.

The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

Life always is now. Life is inseparable from now.

I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.