When there's somebody there who is transparent enough so that the stillness comes through unhindered, there's a reciprocal movement in you because the presence of stillness suddenly recognizes itself.

A built-in reminder is the simple understanding that whenever any kind of unhappiness arises, you know you've lost the now. That's a built-in alarm clock. The moment you realize you've lost the now, come back to the now.

Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind.

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.

As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy.