The ego, as our familiar sense of self, seems predicated on fear. The fear that we might not make it, that we might not get where we want to go. But deep down there is also a grain of fear that we have nothing to give or nothing to offer. I think that's the ego's justifiable anxiety about its substantiality and existence.

People around us change and circumstances change. We can often find ourselves struggling against those things.

Time and the timeless dimension co-exist here, now in this very moment that we're living, this very moment that we're speaking.

When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.

The everyday, familiar sense of self who lives in time, and that dimension which we've called presence, that is always here, that is still and quiet.

Time, for example, is intimately connected with the goddess Kali, which partly accounts for her destructive nature. Energy - in Einstein's equation, E=MC2 - is personified in India as Shakti in her various guises.

Everything constantly changes.