I believe we should really take our own phenomenology more seriously. What a good theory of conscious must explain is the variance in this subjective sense of realness: There clearly is a phenomenology of "hyperrealness", for example during religious experiences or under the influence of certain psychoactive substances.

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

A lot of evidence shows that most of our cognitive processing is unconscious - phenomenal experience is just a very small slice or partition of a much larger space in which mental processing takes place.

Whoever loses the capability for inner silence, loses contact to himself and soon won't be able to think clearly any more.

The Ego is a transparent mental image: You, the physical person as a whole, look right through it. You do not see it. But you see with it.

I could never understand how someone would embark on their life without having first confronted and clarified the truly fundamental questions.

Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective experience is determined as well.