You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.

The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.

The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the world.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.

Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.

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.