“This is what selfishness does: it fills you with the illusion of separation”

“Separate yourself from the lies and illusions which are not you.”

“We're here to awaken from the illusion of separateness”

“What is death? A "tragic mask." Turn it and examine it. See, it does not bite. The poor body must be separated from the spirit either now or later, as it was separated from it before. Why, then, are you troubled, if it be separated now? for if it is not separated now, it will be separated afterward. Why? That the period of the universe may be completed, for it has need of the present, and of the future, and of the past. What is pain? A mask. Turn it and examine it. The poor flesh is moved roughly, then, on the contrary, smoothly. If this does not satisfy you, the door is open: if it does, bear. For the door ought to be open for all occasions; and so we have no trouble.”

“We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.”

“Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.”