The human condition: lost in thought.

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

Thought began to take over and obscured the simple yet profound joy of connectedness with being.

The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.

This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some of it, however, is also happening within the existing churches and religious institutions wherever the members of those congregations do not identify with rigid and exclusive belief systems whose unconscious purpose is to foster a sense of separation on which the egoic mind structures depend for their survival.

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose

Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.