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

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still.

The ego always looks toward the next moment for some kind of fulfillment.

Some people thought I was crazy to have let go of all the worldly things I had "achieved." They didn't understand that I didn't want or need any of that anymore.

The outer purpose belongs to the horizontal dimension of space and time; the inner purpose concerns a deepening of your Being in the vertical dimension of the timeless Now.

If the individuals who make up a group have personal egos, and their identities lie in these egos, then their egoic identities will shift to the group. It might look as if they are losing their personal egos, but the ego simply shifts to the group.