I am happiness
Even the striving to be happy is the surest proof of unhappiness.
In this striving, when one grabs moments of happiness, the grabbing destroys the happiness and the striving, which is unhappiness, alone remains.
When all these are dropped, then happiness is.
It can never be caught - I can never seek happiness - I can never be happy.
I am happiness.
Suicide
Only that mind can be still which has arrived at its own - it has committed suicide as it were.
Just as the ocean can become absolutely calm, without any waves at all, and yet still be there, only its modification as waves and currents having ceased, even so intelligence will be there without the modifications known as thoughts, ideas, concepts and actions.
S-o-r-r-o-w
A holy Man came to a very simple and beautiful understanding - sorrow is 's-o-r-r-o-w', nothing more than the word.
If the word were not there, and if the mind that gave value to that word were not there, where would sorrow be?
This Holy Man discovered that "as you think, so you become".
It means this: I am thinking of sorrow and at that moment I experience sorrow.
The Cover
Self-development is like the unfolding of the spirit that is already there.
But I am not able to discover that spirit all at once, because the spirit is covered.
When I turn to look within, I am merely seeing that cover.
The "cover" of craving for pleasure, craving for domination, for superiority - all of which is violence.
I need to be able to look at this clearly, look at it closely, turn it around, and see how it works, so as to handle it successfully.
An I-dea
Perhaps the first pronoun "I" is nothing but the abbreviation of the full word "Idea".
The first person pronoun "I" may itself be nothing more than an idea.