Probably, if you are successful in this world you are stressed, and if you are a failure, you are bored!

The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.

Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship with life where you are in almost continuous conflict with situations and people? Or is that just a deep-seated mental habit that can be broken? Not by doing anything, but by allowing this moment to be as it is.

You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.

Every challenge takes you a little deeper and awakens you again and again. Without the challenges, you probably would go to back to sleep. The challenges keep you awake.