If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the quality of your consciousness? Your degree of presence. So the only place where true change can occur and where the past can be dissolved is the Now.

Humanity as a species must change dramatically and radically or our survival is at stake.

Stress is a form of suffering.

Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness

If you can get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it.

Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.