Some people get attached to their practice. They get good at it, but even becoming a good meditator can become a hindrance.

So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest of their lives.

The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.

Enthusiasm cannot be a continuous state. It comes in waves.

Use whatever challenge comes into your life as a kind of fuel for the flame of consciousness. That is done through surrender to what is. Some people may need more of that than others. If you choose presence in your daily life you may not need the drastic challenges.

Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and the new, between mind identification and presence.

When you meet another human being, you meet the physical self, then you meet the psychological self that's behind it, which is their mental conditioning, their patterns of behavior and so on. And then, there is a deeper level to every human being that transcends all of that. I can only sense that in another human being and relate to another human being on that deeper level if I have gone deep enough within myself.