Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.

You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.

Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.

When your fulfillment and sense of self are no longer dependent on the future outcome, joy flows into whatever you do. You do what you do because the action itself is fulfilling. Whatever you do or create in that state is of high quality. This is because it is not a means to an end, and so a loving care flows into your doing.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it.