In this way, it becomes more highly charged energetically.

Greed, selfishness, exploitation, cruelty, and violence are still all-pervasive on this planet. When you don’t recognize them as individual and collective manifestations of an underlying dysfunction or mental illness, you fall into the error of personalizing them.

The density of the ego depends on the degree to which you—the consciousness—are identified with your mind, with

So, whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware at that moment that there is something in you that takes pleasure in it or believes it has a useful purpose, you are becoming aware of the ego directly.

to the feeling of aliveness inside it.

maya, the veil of delusion.

To awaken within the dream is our purpose now.

More fundamental than the external forms—things and bodies—are the thought forms that continuously arise in the field of consciousness.

You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to an end (money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do.