Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.

If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment.

An emotion is your body's reaction to your mind.

It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child.

On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it.