If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.

Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are at peace.

Even the great scientists have reported that their creative break-throughs came at a time of mental quietude. The surprising result of a nationwide inquiry among America's most eminent mathematicians, including Einstein, to find out their working methods, was that thinking 'plays only a subordinate part in the brief, decisive phase of the creative act itself'.

Accept the present moment without judgement.

The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.