Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

Surrender comes when you no longer ask, 'Why is this happening to me?'

An enlightened person or business is not concerned primarily with making money, because when you are concerned with making money you want the future more than the present. Whenever you want the future more than you want the present, true intelligence cannot flow into what you do, because it can do so only when you are totally aligned with the present moment.

How’ is always more important that ‘what.’ See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.

I know that at the core of each religion there is the truth, heavily obscured in some cases, but it's there.

Most people are so distracted by their thoughts, so identified with the voices in their heads, they no longer feel the aliveness within them. To be unable to feel the life that animates the physical body, the very life that you are, is the greatest deprivation that can happen to you.

Presence is the key to freedom, so you can only be free now.