Many people don't realise until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are.

And so I came to understand why some masters sometimes say, "You are already enlightened."

Each human needs to find his or her timeless and formless essence identity

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose

The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance to events, that is to say, being at one with what happens. The story of the man whose comment was invariably a laconic "Maybe" illustrates the wisdom of nonjudgment, and the story of the ring points to the fact of impermanence which, when recognized, leads to nonattachment. Nonresistance, nonjudgement, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest of their lives.