The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.

Anger is sign that something needs to change.

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness. If we can put our minds into a place of surrender, we will have an easier time feeling the contours of the land. We do not have to break our way through as much as we have to find our way around the major obstacles. We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them.

It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence

Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.