“The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.”

You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.

It’s not the darkness that people fear; it’s what they imagine into the darkness.

If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.

The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.

Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.

Until you can love what is – everything, including the apparent violence and craziness – you’re separate from the world, and you’ll see it as dangerous and frightening.

When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.

It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.

It’s not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.

Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn’t need to happen.

Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.

When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.

When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives.

To argue with reality is to argue with God.

Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.

Wealth is not to feed our egos, but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

Promise had made a bond with efforts! Sadly, ego came in between them.

You can’t hurt a person and expect them to fake happiness so that it doesn’t hurt your ego.

Love would be easy if the heart is egoless.

Your competitor is not other people. Your competitor is your ego.

It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

Ego is a false mask, it hides your original face.

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.