The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening.

I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer.

In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear.

The witness is always in the here and now and it lives in each instant of living. To be in the witness is to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without clinging, without opinions.

When you are completely identified with your thinking mind you are totally separate from everything else in the universe.

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

At the moment when there's nothing more to lose, the Ego breaks open - and then we see who we are behind who we thought we were.