We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

Drop your identification with the illusion of separateness.

The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.

The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them.

When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.

I've firmly come to the conclusion that there are no 'themes' for me anymore. I can't be told who to hate, who to fight, who to subdue - I only see an 'us' in my heart.

Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.