Being aware of your breath forces you into the present moment - the key to all inner transformation. Whenever you are conscious of the breath, you are absolutely present. You may also notice that you cannot think and be aware of your breathing. Conscious breathing stops your mind.

When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.

Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them.

The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don't realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are.

You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.

The egoic madness, or dysfunction, becomes enormously amplified by the science and technology we all have developed.