Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness

Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.

If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with. Maybe, I thought, only one of them is real.

It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is.

People can't live with themselves much longer. The planet cannot live with humans much longer! We have the weaponry, destruction of the planet, pollution, destruction of forests, countless manifestations of humans using their intelligence in the service of the dysfunction, the madness. It's a strange juxtaposition. Humans are intelligent, but if you look at history or even watch TV, they're also incredibly stupid.

Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.