Don't wait to be successful at some future point, have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

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.

The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.

Everything flows with much greater ease when people live as one with the present moment.

Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane.

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.