Strictly speaking, you don't think: Thinking happens to you.

Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.

If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks like weakness to the ego is in fact the only true strength. This spiritual truth is diametrically opposed to the values of our contemporary culture and the way it conditions people to behave.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images. People may not realize that the enormous energy and spiritual power that comes through a teacher, especially in a teaching situation, has nothing to do with that person.