It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.

Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.

So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.

Consciousness is not personal. Human consciousness is just an expression of universal consciousness, which pervades the entire universe.

We could say that the totality, life wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate from life and so wants nothing for itself. It is one with what life wants. That's why it isn't worried or stressed. And, if it has to die prematurely, it dies with ease.

I have seen cases where people seemed to become totally free of ego, and at some point in their lives the ego came back. It has happened, for example, to some spiritual teachers. At some point in their lives, they began to identify again with form.