How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.

When you continuously know and sense yourself as the space of consciousness rather than what appears in consciousness - sense perceptions, thoughts, emotions - then it can be said that you are enlightened... except that you wouldn't think or speak of yourself as 'enlightened', because that would instantly create another mind-based conceptual identity and so it would be the end of 'your' enlightenment.

Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?

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.

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

Terrorism is an example of that extreme madness. People blow themselves up just to kill others. Unconscious reaction to terrorism is equal madness.

...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.