You are not what happens in your life. You are the space in which it happens, which is consciousness itself.

Spiritual awakening - is becoming awake to the aliveness of this moment.

The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.

Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.

Be aware of your breathing as often as you are able, whenever you remember. Do that for one year, and it will be powerfully transformative. And it's free.

When life takes away the forms that you thought were the foundation of your life, what's left? The life that needs no foundation - that is the foundation. The formless. The essence.