Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left?

Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible.

Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.

Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective habit pattern.

The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then turns into a nightmare.

We are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other. We witnessed the final stages of egoic madness in the 20th century, and even now it still is playing itself out. It has not quite come to an end yet.

When you accept what is, you are grateful for whatever situation arises.