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

Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control. It believes it is real and tries hard to maintain its supremacy. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human conciousness... seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being, their true nature.

And so I came to understand why some masters sometimes say, "You are already enlightened."

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.