If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you're back in time.

For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.

Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible.

Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.

Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought.