Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness

When you see around you the human form suffering or dissolving, you have empathy on the human level. You share the suffering because it has to do with the fleetingness of form. But if that is the only level that operates in you, you haven't gone beyond suffering.

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

Forgive yourself for not being at peace.

The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?

A person dies, or something you had identified with completely is gone. Your home goes up in flames. There is extreme pain at first. But whenever a form dissolves, which is called "death," what remains is an opening into emptiness.