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

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.

If you feel a sense of social responsibility, first of all keep working on yourself. Being peaceful yourself is the first step if you want to live in a peaceful universe.

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don't have to change them. Things just change.