The characters get challenged. Through getting challenged, the character arrives at insights or discovers potentials that he or she didn't know they had.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.

For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.

Whatever you do in your daily life - driving from here to there, trying to reach someone on the phone, doing this or that - you always are going toward somewhere. That's inevitable.

Your primary purpose is to be here fully, and to be total in whatever you do so that the preciousness of the present moment does not become reduced to a means to an end. And there you have your life purpose. That's the very foundation of your life.

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

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.