The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself.

It is not necessary to do things in a state of anxiety or anguish. That is not the way to be aligned with life.

The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.

Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you. The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.

[Visualisation] works most powerfully when you realize that it is already a reality on the unseen level. It's already there.

Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.