Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

I am optimistic that humanity is going to make it, that humanity is going to reach, finally, a new state of consciousness which will then create a different kind of world.

Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the head.

We are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other.

Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of "me" based on thought and emotions. So ego is there in the absence of a witnessing presence.

Whereas the notion of purpose before was always associated with future, there is now a deeper purpose that can only be found in the present, through denial of time.

For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.