The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.
Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.
Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.
Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper.
Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.
If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least human civilization can survive, for another hundred years.