When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.

...the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy.

To be aware of little, quiet things, you need to be quiet inside. A high degree of alertness is required. Be still. Look. Listen. Be present.

When one child says to another, "I can do this, I bet you can't"; "My dad has a bigger car than yours"; or, "My dad is stronger than yours." Children identify with this or that, trying to build up a sense of self - a mentally defined sense of self.

Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence.

You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.

If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least human civilization can survive, for another hundred years.