Each new moment presents an opportunity for conscious choice. We can choose to let go of the past. We can choose to be here now. We can choose to accept responsibility for ourselves. . . . We can choose to awaken. Or we can choose to remain asleep and unconscious.

"What do I want?" is your question. And what you want is always changing with the flow. So go with the flow.

When you are present, you are transcendent of the mind and ego and so you can witness your mind and ego. You can be conscious of your thoughts without being lost in them when they arise.

One of the great dangers on the spiritual path is that the ego becomes spiritualized. The ego loves to think of itself as spiritually evolved. It is just another way that it manages to feel important and in control. It is very difficult to free yourself from an enlightened ego.

When you are truly present, you illuminate everything around you.

The more awake you are, the less there is of you here. At the very deepest level of Presence, you have disappeared and only God is.

Everything that happens is designed to awaken us. Everything.