Failures lies concealed in every success in every failure.

When you see around you the human form suffering or dissolving, you have empathy on the human level. You share the suffering because it has to do with the fleetingness of form. But if that is the only level that operates in you, you haven't gone beyond suffering.

Whatever happens, whatever you experience, feel, think, do - it's always now. It's all there is. And if you continuously miss the now - resist it, dislike it, try to get away from it, reduce it to a means to an end, then you miss the essence of your life, and you are stuck in a dream world of images, concepts, labels, interpretations, judgments - the conditioned content of your mind that you take to be yourself.

I had been anxious and depressed for years and suddenly I was deeply at peace.

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

Ultimately what you do is secondary. But how you do it is primary.

When Doing becomes infused with the timeless quality of being, that is success