Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you. The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

A new species is arising on the planet, it is arising now and you are it.

When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the world.

Strictly speaking, "you" cannot become enlightened, because who you take yourself to be is like a ripple in the ocean of consciousness - or a little wave if you're a VIP - and the ripple doesn't become enlightened until it realizes that its ripple-identity is ultimately a misperception, that it is the ocean taking on a fleeting ripple-form.

The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.

Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness