By becoming self-aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life.

If you're studying for an exam you're not thinking about the results. If you're always worried about the results, you can't study a lot. So to be engaged and detached from the outcome is excellent. Excellence is behavior. I mean, isn't that what martial arts is about? And that's what meditation is about, that's what, in many ways, sports are about.

I am not in the world. The world is in me.

It's your choice, what you do with the moment. If you're stuck in a traffic jam, you can get angry and honk your horn, or listen to Mozart. But when you have a very specific expectation of how things should be, then, of course, you end up hurting yourself.

When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.

Seekers are offered clues all the time from the world of spirit. Ordinary people call these clues coincidences

At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos. There is no difference between your breathing and the breathing of the rain forest, between your bloodstream and the world’s rivers, between your bones and the chalk cliffs of Dover.