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.

In whatever way change comes, the important thing is to take responsibility for this moment. Then, life becomes cooperative.

You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present.

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve.

The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.

If you are not in alignment with the moment, life is a struggle. Really, all you have to do is take responsibility for your inner alignment with now.

Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.