How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.
You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe.
Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought.
It is very hard to tell when I started to be a spiritual teacher. There was a time when occasionally somebody would come and ask me questions. One could say at that point I became a spiritual teacher, although the term did not occur to me then.
Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.
For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.