A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions.

To love is to recognize yourself in another. The others "otherness" then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Stillness is your essential nature.

We are destined not to go back to the level of animals that we've come from but to return to being by going beyond thinking.

When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something within you responds deeply to it, close your eyes for a moment and feel the essence of that love or that beauty within you, inseparable from who you are, your true nature. The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.

It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is.