“I festered with this duality of love and ego, where ego scorns the very love its seeking and then despairs in its absence.”

“Don't seek love externally, it's fleeting. Go beyond the ego and awaken thelove that already exists within; it will encompass everyone andeverything in your life; it will permeate your very being.”

“It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.”

“There comes a time in the development of every ego when it must love its neighbors or become a twisted and stunted personality.”

“The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind.”

“Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.”