When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns home into the Unmanifested.

Stress is extremely harmful to the body.

When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?

Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable.

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.

...there are two ways of being unhappy: One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want.