When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.

The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?

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'.

Whereas the notion of purpose before was always associated with future, there is now a deeper purpose that can only be found in the present, through denial of time.

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.