As soon as the mind and mind identification return; you're no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself, and you start playing games and roles again to get your ego needs met.

Stress means there is something wrong, and you are not aligned with life.

When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the world.

Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness

The way I feel is that there is a balance in my life between being alone and interacting with people, between Being and doing.

You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.

The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then turns into a nightmare.