unhappiness is never the situation

1. All the things that truly matter — beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind.
    
2. Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
    
3. Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you have at this moment.
    
4. The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.
    
5. The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.
    
6. Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.
    
7. As a spiritual practice, I suggest that you investigate your relationship with the world of things through self-observation.
    
8. No matter what you have or get, you won't be happy. You will always be looking for something else that promises greater fulfillment, that promises to make your incomplete sense of self complete and fill that sense of lack you feel within..
    
9. Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. … If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
    
10. A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.
     
11. The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.
     
12. Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.