The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux, moving back and forth. The ego's happiness is really a form of suffering, because it cannot live without unhappiness.

If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his family history, and in two minutes he gets eaten by another fish - that's tragic. But it's only tragic because you projected a separate self where there was none. You got hold of a fraction of dynamic process, a molecular dance, and a separate entity out of it.

I know that at the core of each religion there is the truth, heavily obscured in some cases, but it's there.

The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.

If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.

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.