Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an end.

So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest of their lives.

You can't argue with what is.... Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

Resistance keeps you stuck. Surrender immediately opens you to the greater intelligence that is vaster than the human mind, and it can then express itself through you. So through surrender often you find circumstances changing.

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance to events, that is to say, being at one with what happens. The story of the man whose comment was invariably a laconic "Maybe" illustrates the wisdom of nonjudgment, and the story of the ring points to the fact of impermanence which, when recognized, leads to nonattachment. Nonresistance, nonjudgement, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.