Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness. Thinking is potentially a powerful tool, but it has taken us over, and a lot of it is dysfunctional and negative.

Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of "me" based on thought and emotions. So ego is there in the absence of a witnessing presence.

The state of presence is the only state in which creative energy is available to you.

Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself.

Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind.

Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the head.

The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego.