"As long as you're concerned about improving yourself, you'll always have a self to improve."

-- Cheri Huber

"What we call 'me' is only a tension added to that One, something superimposed on what is simple and Divine and direct."

-- Da Free John

"The word 'I' is really a position like 'this' or 'here'."

-- William James

"The giving up of  judgments is the obvious prerequisite for hearing God's voice, is usually a fairly slow process, nit because it is difficult, but because it is apt to be perceived as personally insulting."

-- A Course in Miracles

"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him."

-- Thomas Szasz

"If we undertake being a good, compassionate person as a personal identity, it just gets in the way of awakening."

-- Adyashanti

"Put bluntly the ego is not an obstruction to Spirit, but a radiant manifestation of Spirit."

-- Ken Wilber

"Enlightenment is awakening from the dream of being a separate me to being a universal reality."

-- Adyashanti