When one child says to another, "I can do this, I bet you can't"; "My dad has a bigger car than yours"; or, "My dad is stronger than yours." Children identify with this or that, trying to build up a sense of self - a mentally defined sense of self.

... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.

Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment.

You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.

You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.

Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.