People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images. People may not realize that the enormous energy and spiritual power that comes through a teacher, especially in a teaching situation, has nothing to do with that person.

You can not have an argument with a fully conscious person.

Music is a wonderful way of getting in touch with the stillness within.

Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control. It believes it is real and tries hard to maintain its supremacy. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

Some people are called upon to do great things externally in this world by creating some new structure that reflects their awakening consciousness. Other people are not called to go out into the world and create great big things externally. Their purpose is to let consciousness flow into whatever they do - to do everything in a sacred manner.

When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?

All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.