“Ego can be defined as whatever covers up basic goodness.  From an experiential point of view, what is ego covering up? It’s covering up our experience of just being here, just fully being where we are, so that we can relate to the immediacy of our experience.”  Pema Chödrön

“The ego is the single biggest obstacle to the achievement of anything. Between-ness is the acting without ego. You act, but you are not the actor.  You do things, but you are not the doer – you know you are not the doer.  It is the ability to hold the head at a dead standstill in order to affect certain changes.  You desire the change, but you do not care if it comes to pass.”  Richard Rose

“With spiritual work, the terms ‘is’ or ‘are’ become progressively replaced by the term ‘seems to’, which is due to the increasing realization of the degree to which perception is the mask that hinders truth.”  David Hawkins

“All judgment reveals itself to be self-judgment in the end and, when this is understood, a larger comprehension of the nature of life takes its place.”  David Hawkins

“The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.”  Pema Chödrön

“If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events.  It’s your restlessness that causes the chaos.”  Sri Nisargadatta

“Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don’t realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal.  This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.”  Eckhart Tolle

“You must have a room or a certain hour of the day… a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are, and what you might be.  At first you may find nothing’s happening but if you have a sacred place and use it, take advantage of it, something will happen.  Joseph Campbell

“Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that.”  Meister Eckhart

“The door you open to give love is the very one through which love arrives.”  Alan Cohen