Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness.

Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind - or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body.

You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware.

Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.