The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness.

You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That's the equation.

Humanity is reaching the end of the evolutionary stage of ego. The closer we get to the end, the more dysfunctional humanity becomes.

It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child.

Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left?

I do not put much emphasis on periods of meditation - if you do meditation, it's fine - but the important thing is to bring the awareness into everyday life, into every little action that you do, into the varied challenges of everyday life.