I sometimes say animals are closer to God than humans. They are closer to the source. The humans are more lost in the mind forms. Being is more obscured to the human because of the overlay of ego and mental formation.

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

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?

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

Make it a habit to ask yourself: What's going on inside me at this moment? That question will point you in the right direction. But don't analyze, just watch. Focus your attention within. Feel the energy of the emotion. If there is no emotion present, take your attention more deeply into the inner energy field of your body. It is the doorway into Being.

You need no time to open yourself to the power of now and so awaken to who you are beyond name and form and realize that in the depth of your being, you are already complete, whole, one with the timeless essence of all life.