The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much.

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.

If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy. ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.

You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life.

When you continuously know and sense yourself as the space of consciousness rather than what appears in consciousness - sense perceptions, thoughts, emotions - then it can be said that you are enlightened... except that you wouldn't think or speak of yourself as 'enlightened', because that would instantly create another mind-based conceptual identity and so it would be the end of 'your' enlightenment.

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.