Facing facts is always empowering.

The more suffering you create, the more suffering comes to you.

Don't quote the Buddha. Be the Buddha.

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.

Probably, if you are successful in this world you are stressed, and if you are a failure, you are bored!

We could say that the totality, life wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate from life and so wants nothing for itself. It is one with what life wants. That's why it isn't worried or stressed. And, if it has to die prematurely, it dies with ease.

The flower of #‎ consciousness needs the mud out of which it grows.