Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, "I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. "I have 50 cents left in my bank account" is a fact.

So love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.

Some people are stuck in tedious things, like their jobs, and they are bored. Other people experience one stressful thing after another.

It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is.

So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest of their lives.

Even my desire to become free or enlightened is just another craving for fulfillment or completion in the future. So don’t seek to become free or desire or “achieve” enlightenment. Become present.