On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it.

The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment.

The characters get challenged. Through getting challenged, the character arrives at insights or discovers potentials that he or she didn't know they had.

Enthusiasm is intensified enjoyment of what you are doing.

The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting.

In fact, the collective energy field of presence can be very helpful when people come together. It can give you an enormous boost.

"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no spiritual teacher left.