Not what you do, but how you do what you do determines whether you are fulfilling your destiny. And how you do what you do is determined by your state of consciousness.

Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.

Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

Throughout history humans have inflicted countless violent, cruel, and hurtful acts on each other, and continue to do so. Are they all to be condemned; are they all guilty? Or are those acts simply expressions of unconsciousness, an evolutionary stage that we are now growing out of? Jesus’ words, “Forgive them for they do not know what they do,” also apply to yourself.

The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux, moving back and forth. The ego's happiness is really a form of suffering, because it cannot live without unhappiness.

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

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