Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.

People are amazed to realize they can enjoy the moment rather than be stressed by it when hurrying to an appointment. You can enjoy the energy movement of the moment when you do not have a mental projection of a future moment you need to get to. You still know that you need to get there, but it is the secondary consideration.

The moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

When you recognize the sacredness, the beauty, the incredible stillness and dignity in which a flower or a tree exists, you add something to the flower or the tree. Through your recognition, your awareness, nature too comes to know itself. It comes to know its own beauty and sacredness through you.

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.