“Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion. This fundamentally is all the ego is.”

Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping or pushing away. We must not believe them, but we must not run away from them either.

This world is not my concern; it is myself.

Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.

Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

As you peel it back, in the heart of nothing, that is love. You are what you are seeking. Life is a set up so that each of us can actually see in ourselves the truth for ourselves.

Actually, all paths lead away from the truth…how’s that? All paths. There’s no such thing as a path to the truth. The truth’s already here, where are you going?

The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That’s part of true maturity, and it’s one of the hardest things for spiritual people who have had true and powerful revelations to go through.

Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.

Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.

Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.

This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate ‘me,’ and in turn the sense of ‘me’ strengthens itself this way.

The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high.

Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.

Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.

This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn’t know where to find it.

Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

You’re living the skyscraper life up high just so your ego can soar high.

I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, ‘This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.’ But then, that’s the goal: world domination through style.

Power and energy games only exist in a relationship when the ego is at the wheel. When we heal our hearts, we can show up as mature beings in service to love.

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

As soon as there was two there was pride.

When you focus on directing your energy away from harm and toward healing, you feed the soul and starve the ego.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don’t mean that egotistically – I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.