The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.

Descartes, of course, the French philosopher said: "I think therefore I am".If he had waited a little bit longer before saying anything, he could have come to the point of cessation of thinking and then he could have made the more profound statement: "I am conscious therefore I am".Thinking is only an expression of consciousness: a surface expression of consciousness.

Being must be 'felt' it can not be 'thought.

Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.

Note: The mind is a superb interment if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly -- you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.

The thinking mind can be so noisy that it cannot relate to stillness. It doesn't even recognize it and certainly can't remember it.

A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions.

The evolutionary impulse is towards disidentification from thinking and the arising of awareness or presence, but the gravitational pull of the old consciousness, or rather unconsciousness, is still quite heavy. It's been around for thousands of years.

The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn't mean not to think anymore, but simply not to be completely identified with thought, possessed by thought.