Presence is needed to become aware of the Beauty, the Majesty, the Sacredness of Nature

The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you - ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are.

What I know for sure is that I am a temporary expression in physical form of the one consciousness that expresses itself throughout the universe. I am not separate from that.

If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.

Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action.

Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there.