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.

Allow nature to teach you stillness.

You accept whatever happens in the present moment, the only place where it can happen. Internally, you fully accept what is happening, and what is happening may include an emotion, a stream of anxiety that suddenly comes up within you.

If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks like weakness to the ego is in fact the only true strength. This spiritual truth is diametrically opposed to the values of our contemporary culture and the way it conditions people to behave.

When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is the love that redeems the world.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.