"Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become 'I'."
Identifying with Emotions and Thoughts
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Pay Attention to Your Life
"Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mind-stuff. Your life is real."
Thinking and Consciousness
"Thinking and consciousness are not synonymous. Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought."
Things that Matter Most
"In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?"
Man in a state of Sleep
"There are a thousand things which prevent a man from awakening, which keep him in the power of his dreams. In order to act consciously with the intention of awakening, it is necessary to know the nature of the forces which keep man in a state of sleep. First of all...
Giving Sensible Tokens of Love
"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."
Just a Small Light is Enough
"Just a small light is enough, and you can go on with that small light for ten thousand miles without any difficulty. Your light may be falling only four feet ahead of you – just go on moving. As you move, the light will be moving ahead, and if you can see four feet...
Two of Me
"If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me."
Be Silent and Listen
"The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen."
Things that Truly Matter
"All the things that truly matter — beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind."