Frank T. Maiello, an early on mentor of mine who was a cruical stepping stone to to my awakening in consciousness

“Know that wherever you have problems in your life, there the ego is found. and where the problems have their depth, find there the weight of that ego.  What’s less understood for newbies on the razor’s edged path of return, is where would we be without this ego?  One must befriend bewilderment; it makes certainty look like our *true* enemy.  For, isn’t it out of certainty we find our deepest trap… our prison of treacherous opinion… our cause of social alienation… our death of *true* freedom?”
Frank T. Maiello