For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.

Ego is an immature stage of development for humans, and that's what it will be recognized as when the consciousness changes on the planet. Children will develop an ego and quickly outgrow it. That's very different from developing an ego and being stuck with it for the rest of your life.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.

The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness. There are parables in the New Testament that speak of the importance of being awake, of not falling back to sleep.