Ego

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
We are not victims of our genes, but masters of our fates, able to create lives overflowing with peace, happiness, and love.
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
The mind is the source of all suffering, and it is also the source of all happiness.
The thought system that dominates our world is laced with selfish values, and relinquishing those values is a lot easier said than done. The journey to a pure heart can be highly disorientating. For years we may have worked for money, power and prestige. Now all of a sudden we've learned that those are just the values of a dying world.
The desire to get something reflects a core belief that we don't have enough already. As long as we believe there is scarcity inside us, we'll continue to manufacture scarcity around us because that is our basic thought. No matter what we get, it will never be enough.
Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion.
If a relationship allows us to merely avoid our unhealed places, then we're hiding there, not growing.
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
You can pretend to be something other than who you are but eventually you will run out of energy to continue because that’s not authentically you.