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

For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.

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

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Die before you die and find that there is no death.

Ultimately, every great endeavor consists of many little steps.

Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.