If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it.

Even if they don't know it consciously, people can feel when you are making them into a means to an end only. And people are much less likely to do what you want them to do - for example, to buy the car - when they feel you are reducing them into a means to an end.

You are awareness, disguised as a person.

For some people, it's the beginning of an awakening when they hear or read, "You have a voice in your head that never stops talking. Have you noticed that?" And suddenly they become aware that the thoughts go through their heads, whereas before they were so identified with them that they were those thoughts.

Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action.

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.