If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks like weakness to the ego is in fact the only true strength. This spiritual truth is diametrically opposed to the values of our contemporary culture and the way it conditions people to behave.

Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.

In fact, people think you have to be stressed to be successful. They think if you are not stressed, something is wrong with you.

Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on which their collective egoic identity depends.

If you cannot be at ease with yourself when alone, you will seek a relationship to cover up your unease. You can be sure that the unease will then reappear in some other form within the relationship, and you will probably hold your partner responsible for it.

It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child.

Ultimately what you do is secondary. But how you do it is primary.