Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still. 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.

Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible.

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.