You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.

... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.

The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of join together to form an energy field that lives in the very cells of your body.

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.

Whenever you meet anybody, it is a holy encounter. The primary event is the energy field of presence between you and the other human being that arises. You enjoy it. There is deep joy in the meeting.

One way to become aware many times during the day is to take a conscious breath. Doing so breaks the stream of thinking.