Awareness is all about restoring your freedom to choose what you want instead of what your past imposes on you.

Tradition makes people want to cling to their identity. Change is the enemy.

No longer blinded by a fantasy of perfect love, you find that you are less critical; you don't judge others as much; you have less fear and distrust. At that point you will be able to do the most important thing: you will know what you need and how to get it. Most people are confused about what they actually need, and therefore they seek it in the wrong places.

The ego fiercely protects its view of the world, and we've all experienced how wispy and fleeting any experience can be when it doesn't fit our ingrained belief system.

According to an ancient Upanishad, the human mind is like two birds sitting on a branch. One of the birds is eating the fruit of the tree while the other lovingly looks on.

But it is your self that must constantly be transforming. You cannot bring the same stale self to the world and expect the world to be new for you.

The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.

In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.

The old brain can't conjure up ideas or read.

Whatever you pay attention to will grow. If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will begin to expand in your life. Bit by bit, like a mosaic, disparate fragments of grace will merge to form a complete picture. Eventually this picture will replace the more threatening one you have carried around inside you since infancy.

Acceptance is about the truth that reality is never wrong.

Every experience comes to us in one of four ways: as a feeling, a thought, an action, or simply a sense of being.