Life is a banquet. And the tragedy is that most people are starving to death. - Anthony de Mello

All suffering is caused by my identifying myself with something, whether that something is within me or outside of me.

For to love persons is to have died to the need for persons and to be utterly alone.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you. You are always a slave to what you're not aware of. When you're aware of it, you're free from it. It's there, but you're not affected by it. You're not controlled by it; you're not enslaved by it. That's the difference.