The Disappearance of the Universe

Your good times in the world are good only in comparison to the bad times. You will eventually learn that it's a trick.

Every response to the ego is a call to war, and war does deprive you of peace. Yet in this war there is no opponent.

The ego is a master illusionist. From birth it diverts your attention by giving you- problems.

You have to learn to turn the tables on the ego. The only way to forgive what is within is to forgive what seems to be without.

Always remember to let other people have their beliefs. It's not necessary to get other people to agree with you.

Miracles fall like drops of healing rain from heaven on a dry and dusty world, where starved and thirsty creatures come to die.

Eckhart Tolle "A New Earth"

The ego may be clever, but it is not intelligent. Cleverness pursues its own little aims. Intelligence seeks the larger whole in which all things are connected. Cleverness is motivated by self-interest and it is extremely short sighted. Most politicians and business people are clever. Very few are intelligent. Whatever is attained through cleverness is short-lived and always turns out to be eventually self-defeating. Cleverness divides, intelligence includes.

Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness.

Unconscious people- and many remain unconscious are trapped in their egos throughout their lives- will quickly tell you who they are: their name, their occupation, their personal history, the shape or state of their body, and whatever else they identify with. Others may appear to be more evolved because they think of themselves as an immortal soul or divine spirit. But do they really know themselves, or have they just added some spiritual sounding concepts to the content of their minds? Knowing yourself goes far deeper than a set of ideas and beliefs.....Knowing yourself deeply has nothing to do with whatever ideas are floating in your mind.Knowing yourself is rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment. Rumi