You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

Humanity as a species must change dramatically and radically or our survival is at stake.

When the movie comes to an end, you are not totally the same person you are when you started the movie.

There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position - a perspective, an opinion, a judgement, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, as so the ego loves to make wrong in order to be right.

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now.

Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the awakening process.