The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.

Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?

If you cannot be at ease with yourself when alone, you will seek a relationship to cover up your unease. You can be sure that the unease will then reappear in some other form within the relationship, and you will probably hold your partner responsible for it.

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

Knowing yourself as the awareness behind the voice is freedom.

Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship with life where you are in almost continuous conflict with situations and people? Or is that just a deep-seated mental habit that can be broken? Not by doing anything, but by allowing this moment to be as it is.

When you accept what is, you are grateful for whatever situation arises.