Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience of that moment.

Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".

Stress is a form of suffering.

Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche