His old self that had sought happiness itself had dissolved, replaced by just a deep, expanding stillness that was completely empty yet strangely filled with life, energy, and bliss

Liberate yourself from narrow individual bonds. See oneness everywhere.

The way out of the cycle was to sublimate the I principle, relinquish all individual desire, to restrain the naturally outgoing mind fueled by the senses and turn it inward. Once it focused within, the mind saw its real nature of pure consciousness and rejected the individual desires and thoughts surrounding it.

Lose identification with your thoughts, desires, the whole sense of I, and become the One

The energy fluctuated, helpless with its desire to experience itself, and out of the hundreds of possible outcomes, the universe we live in came to be

All were made of the same substratum, each linked by the same vibrating, intelligent energy, separated by their sense of I